Marxist Philosophy

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

History is the history of class struggle, and capitalism's own internal contradictions will produce the conditions for its overthrow by the proletariat it creates.

Assumes no economics; it is a pamphlet written to be read aloud, and shorter than most articles about it

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Karl Marx

Argues that wage labour under capitalism alienates workers from the product of their work, from the act of working, from their own nature as creative beings, and from each other.