s. But today we might ask about the Bushmen and other non-Western groups who don't seem to have class distinctions.
Marx drops all pretence of being an objective social scientist at the end of the Manifesto: "[The Communists] 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 Communist Revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!" (Kamenka, 247).
Here is something anathema to traditional academic life, a scholar who is so certain of his doctrine that he wants to change the world, and by the use of violent force, no less. What could be more shocking and iconoclastic?
Are "all social conditions" equally worthy of being overthrown in a bloodbath of violence? And have the various historical revolutions that have been carried out in Marx's name led to improvements for the averag
...