Reading Questions:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Answer

1. How does Marx describe the past history of governments and their origins? How does this compare with Hobbes or Locke?
2. Who are the bourgeoisie? What is their relationship to industry?
3. How has the bourgeoisie influenced population distribution?  What effect does this have on government?
4. Who is the proletariat? What is their relationship to industry?
5. According to Marx, what tends to happen to the lower middle class (small business owners) in a time of Modern Industry?
6. In what ways does the proletariat respond to the bourgeoisie?
7. Is the dissolution of property rights a good or an evil for the sort of proletariat Marx describes?
8. How is the bourgeoisie self-destructive?
9. Are there any similarities between the communists and those who favor democracy?
10. If Communism achieves its stated aims, what will the class structure be?