The Communist Manifesto
“Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism We do not here refer to that literature which in every great modern revolution has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.
The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends-made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown- necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditi...ons for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone. The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character. It inculcated universal asceticism and social leveling in its crudest form.
The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of St.
Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period described above of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1.MoreLess
The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends-made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown- necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditi...ons for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone. The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character. It inculcated universal asceticism and social leveling in its crudest form.
The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of St.
Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period described above of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1.MoreLess
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