This is why they believed that the only way to fix society's problems was to completely change it. All of these ideas were brought together in the communist manifesto, Marx and Engels book about communism, the political theory that everyone should be absolutely equal in a society. In this book, they theorize that the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie and there would be a dictatorship of the proletariat. Over time, this dictatorship would no longer be necessary to keep order, and it would dissolve, leaving a classless society. This classless society is called pure socialism, or communism. However, when this theory was actually put into action, it failed, because the proletariat would not give up their
This is why they believed that the only way to fix society's problems was to completely change it. All of these ideas were brought together in the communist manifesto, Marx and Engels book about communism, the political theory that everyone should be absolutely equal in a society. In this book, they theorize that the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie and there would be a dictatorship of the proletariat. Over time, this dictatorship would no longer be necessary to keep order, and it would dissolve, leaving a classless society. This classless society is called pure socialism, or communism. However, when this theory was actually put into action, it failed, because the proletariat would not give up their