Problem: Marx and Engels first explain the role of Communists in the class struggle and then confront some of the main accusations leveled at Communists by their bourgeois detractors of the time. In answering their critics, Marx and Engels also offer clarification and explanation of their own ideas, for example on the question of what is meant by the "abolition of private property" and of the "bourgeois family": questions that are still raised to this day. Finally, Marx and Engels set out a list of demands to be raised by Communists active in the movement.
Answer the following:
Q1. What lesson(s) should we draw from the statement that "The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties"?
Q2. How can Communists "point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality"?
Q3. What is "capital"? What is "wage-labour"? And how do the two relate to each other?
Q4. What place would the individual have in a Communist society?
Q5. What do Marx and Engels mean by "abolition of the family"?
Q6. What is the role of the state, and what form would the state take in a Communist society?