Part 1 of Essay
If neither Marx or Engels never lived and written the books they did, former Soviet Union and China would probably be conducting their governmental systems in a different manner. Defined by Marx and Engels, the communist theory can be summed up in the single phrase: abolition of private property (Engels, Marx 80). Com ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation (Engels, Marx 86)." Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties. There are ten measures needed to convert to communism (Engels, Marx 94). 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to the public. 2. Heavy progressive income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralizing of credit in t ....