Document Summary: Socialism According To Marx

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In a basic summary of these documents, document one starts off with “Socialism According to Marx”. This article is written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called “The Communist Manifesto”. This article talks a lot about the bourgeoisie and how it has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It brings up how it created enormous cities while it has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has then rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. As privates of the industrial army, they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state but they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine.
Document two talks about Socialism without Revolution and in this document has an article written by Eduard Bernstein dealing with Evolutionary Socialism. He talks about how he set himself against the notion that we have to expect a collapse of the bourgeois economy. Bernstein thinks that we should be told that he abandoned the conquest of political power by the working classes. He explains that the task of social democracy is speculating on a great economic crash and how we need to organize the working classes politically. He brings up how we need to
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In 1907 the Social Democratic Party of Germany embraced 29,458 women members, in 1908 that number moved up to 62,257 women. 150 lecture and study circles for women have been established. A socialist propaganda among the workers wife’s and women wages has been carried on by many public meetings tallying into the hundreds, in which women comrades addressed more particularly working class women. The most noticeable feature of the socialist women's movement in Germany is its clearness and revolutionary spirit to socialist theories and