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| | The Communist Manifesto |
 | | The Manifesto, in fact, was the first complete statement of the aims of the working class movement and, more to the point, of its historic mission -- to be the "grave diggers of capitalism", to take state power, and itself become the ruling class. |
 | | The Manifesto explains plainly that the cycle of crises, now more intense than ever, cannot be reigned in -- a case of never sharing the fortunes of the rich, but always sharing in their misfortune. |
 | | Marx, Engels and their fellow Communist Leaguers and trade union militants, found that collective political party organisation was the answer; to direct all militant actions -- successful or not -- to achieving state power for workers, "forcibly", as the Manifesto put it, if necessary. |
| www.newworker.org /manifesto.htm (2454 words) |
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