ABSTRACT
The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. 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 bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations, even the most barbarian, into civilization. The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. In Communist society, accumulated labor is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the laborer. The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.
