1. MANIFESTO OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY
KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS

2. KEY QUESTIONS
1. What is bourgeoisie and what is proletarian?
2. What is the importance of the bourgeoisie in the
capitalist society? (Try to relate to the “feudal society”
that occurred before it)
3. What are the changes and consequences occurring
due to the widespread of capitalism? (Compare the
situation to that of feudal society)
4. According to Marx and Engels, how did these changes
give impact to the proletarians?
5. What did Marx and Engels try to point out when they
compare communism to the German Ideology?
6. What is your opinion on Marx and Engel’s ideas?

3. ANSWER
1. Bourgeoisie is the middle class of the society. They are neither
aristocrats nor the lower class. Proletarian is the working class
in the capitalist society
2. The importance bourgeoisie? They are the pioneers of the
capitalism.
3. They change the paradigm of society from the importance
of one’s status to the importance of means of production.
4. The proletarians become less and less wealthy because the
focus is not on the people, but on the production
5. The German Ideology is determined by particular values /
human consciousness. Communism emphasizes that it’s not
the consciousness/values/ideology that should determine
the life of people. It is the people that should determine the
ideology. Thus, the task of communism is to gather people
from different groups to work together to decide their new
system (against capitalism).