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The political theory of socialism, which gave rise to communism, had been around for hundreds of years by the time a German philosopher named Karl Marx put pen to paper. Marx, also known as the father of communism, spent most of his life in exile in Great Britain and France.
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According to the philosopher Frederick Engels' "Principles of Communism," the plan for ultimate financial and social equality is built on the principle that the system should spread around the world until all countries are on board [source: Engels].
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from The Communist Manifesto, 1848 ... The centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by the establishment of a state bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly; The centralization of transport in the hands of the state; ... The unification of agricultural with industrial labour, and the gradual abolition of...
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1. -- What is Communism? ; Communism is a theoretical statement of the conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat. ... 2. — What is the proletariat?; The proletariat is that class in society which obtains its livelihood wholly and solely from the sale of its labour, and not from the profit of any capital;
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The text that serves as the beginning of the communist movement ... 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.
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and is communism the enemy of democracy? Why? ... Communism as understood by people like the English Levellers, no. A democratic state could adopt this type of socialism easily. The same goes for the socialist and social democratic solutions adopted in Western Europe after WWII.
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