1. The Communist Manifesto
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
— Karl Marx & Frederick Engels 1848

2. Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

3. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Dialectical Materialism

4. Marxism
Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—collectively known as Marxism—hold that all societies progress through the dialectic of class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class which controls production and a lower class which produces the labour for such goods.

5. Communist Manifesto
The organization of society depends on means of production. Literally those things, like land, natural resources, and technology, necessary for the production of material goods and the relations of production, in other words, the social relationships people enter into as they acquire and use the means of production. Together these compose the mode of production.

6. The Communist Manifesto
Marx's view of capitalism was two sided. On one hand, Marx, in the 19th century's deepest critique of the dehumanizing aspects of this system, noted that defining features of capitalism include alienation, exploitation and recurring, cyclical depressions leading to mass unemployment; on the other hand capitalism is also characterized by "revolutionizing, industrializing and universalizing qualities of development, growth and progressivity"

7. the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder. Into their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted in it, and the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class. A similar movement is going on before our own eyes ... The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring order into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property.
—Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

8. Governments in Capitalist countries act to promote the interest of the economically dominant capitalist class, even the class is made up of only a minority of the population.

9. Marx & Revolution
The bourgeoisie provide the workers with education they will need to fight against capitalism successfully
A portion of the bourgeoisie ideologists defect politically to the side the working class
A proletarian revolution will lead to the abolition of exploitation – the only way the workers can take control of the economy

10. Marx & Revolution
Marx rejects the view that socialist revolutions can be the work of a minority acting on behalf of the majority. Revolution will only bring liberation if those to be liberated participate.
A worker’s revolt would end capitalist control of society. This can only come about through the threat or use of force, because the ruling class will not relinquish its privileges in any other way.

11. Marx and Revolution
“What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
—Karl Marx and Frederic Engels,

12. "WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE”

13. Marxism Today