Key Terms and Quotes: Communist Manifesto

Key Terms: Bourgeoisie: "[B]y bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor" (79). The bourgeoisie developed out of feudalism and will be destroyed by the proletariat, whom they necessary exploit on account of their economic position. Proletariat: "[B]y proletariat [is meant] the class of modern-wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power …

…to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation" (99). *"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" (105). *"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" (120).