the communist manifesto

West Enlightenment
Thomas Zahora/ Tip Ragan
December 10, 2003
Communist Manifesto & We
Question #1 Select some characteristics of communist society as envisioned by Marx and Engels in the Manifesto, and compare them with the imagined realities of Zamyatin's "We". Questions to ponder: 1. what has gone wrong, as far as society is concerned, in Zamyatin's novel? 2. In what ways is (or is not) the society in "We" a necessary result of the application of communist ideals in real life?

In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx along with Frederich Engels envisioned a change that would occur to place a social order. They called this communism. This social order would be the opposite of Capitalism, having the government control all the money, instead of the community. They believed this would occur at the expense of the working class.
The main reason for this existence was to create only one class, so that there would no longer be a class struggle. There would no longer be a need for all t...