In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx makes it clear that he opposes a view of the human being and human nature which states that human beings are necessarily greedy and selfish. However, he does not oppose the selfish nature of the human being by stating that human beings are naturally...

Various leaders have different approaches in their modes of leadership, which is evident in a comparison between Slobodan Milošević and Pope Francis. Slobodan Milošević was Serbia’s president and a political leader as he was the head of several different movements in Yugoslav and Serbia. The mode of leadership exercised by...

Communism has spread throughout Europe, and its presence is well known. Its ideals and motives are different of what we think today’s society should be, but nonetheless, it is a way of governing society. This is the “universal proletarian revolution” that Karl Marx and the early leaders of the Communist...

Communism and fascism both arose after World War I. Europe was devastated by the war. The war eliminated the German and Russian empires. Germany had to pay war reparations. Germany had to cede to France previously seized territory and give up eastern lands to Poland (Brower & Sanders, 2016). Moreover,...

Some of the most enduring passages within Karl Marx seminal treatise, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, now colloquially shortened to The Communist Manifesto, are those which explicate Marx’s understanding of both historical methodology and the role of the bourgeoisie as historical actors. These ideas appear prominently in the Manifesto’s...