ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

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“. . . They [the Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained [achieved] only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!” -Friederich Engels and Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848 from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam, August 2002. These views, expressed by Engels and Marx, were developed in reaction to the
A
unification of Germany
B
Commercial Revolution
C
Congress of Vienna
D
Industrial Revolution
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was first published in 1848. It formed the basis for the modern communist movement as we know it, arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The famous final phrase of the Manifesto, “Working Men of All Countries, Unite!”, in the original German is: “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!” Thus, a more correct translation would be “Proletarians of all countries, Unite!” “Workers of the World, Unite.

Detailed explanation-5: -The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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