The Principles of Communism

Index

Introduction

1. What is Communism?

2. What is the proletariat?

3. Proletarians, then, have not always existed?

4. How did the proletariat originate?

5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place?

6. What working classes were there before the industrial revolution?

7. In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?

8. In what way do proletarians differ from serfs?

9. In what way do proletarians differ from handicraftsmen?

10. In what way do proletarians differ from manufacturing workers?

11. What were the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution and of the division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat?

12. What were the further consequences of the industrial revolution?

13. What follows from these periodic commercial crises?

14. What will this new social order have to be like?

15. Was not the abolition of private property possible at an earlier time?

16. Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible?

17. Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke?

18. What will be the course of this revolution?

19. Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone?

20. What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property?

21. What will be the influence of communist society on the family?

22. What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?

23. What will be its attitude to existing religions?

24. How do communists differ from socialists?

25. What is the attitude of the communists to the other political parties of our time?