My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

It is the time to play: “lets see what site we end up at when we go and do a google key-word search on Adam’s dodgy blog”. The keywords this time are: “Communist Manifesto”; longtime readers of my site, namely, myself, will remember that this was also the first key-word search meaning that we have come full circle already. I still stand by communism. Although it is merely a utopian idealism that can never be achieved in real life – at least it has been tried. We all have the right to be equal. It should not matter who you were born, where you were born, what you were born into. We all have the right to healthcare, we all have the right to an education, we all have the right to freedom.

Does this mean I think that communism works? Hell no! It has failed. What sets communism apart from other forms of government is that it has been tried. Democracy has never and will never be tried, the half-arsed forms of democracy we live under at the moment are failing, dictatorships only work under certain circumstances, namely, when you are trying to control tribal uprisings and ethnic disputes, monarchies have been diluted, for the better or worse is not something I will delve into here, by the introduction of governments. Communism, as utopic as it may be, is still the only major form of government that has tried to create a classless society – and for that alone – I salute you.

Now, without further adieu:

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html:

A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
The history of all hitherto existing society [2] is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master [3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.