The Communist Manifesto is one of the most significant political essays ever devised. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels envisioned a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the exploitation of industrial workers would eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. The revolution called for: Abolition of private property-property that could be used to 'subjugate the labor of others.' Elimination of the 'bourgeois' nuclear family, replacing home e