{"id":17069,"date":"2020-10-24T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=17069"},"modified":"2020-10-31T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:37:30","slug":"the-communist-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-communist-league\/","title":{"rendered":"The Communist League and Political Ideologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the Communist League? Does the Communist League support other parties and ideologies other than Communism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist League was responsible for the views outlined in The Communist Manifesto<\/em>. The League provided the ideas and paths to a Communism political system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red more about The Communist League and other causes they support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Communist League and Other Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now that Marx has explained the values and aims of the Communist League, he turns his focus to how they compare to those of socialism and other working class parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Socialism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the time of publication, the Manifesto of the Communist Party<\/em> wouldn\u2019t have been described as socialist. In 1848, Marx defines \u201csocialists\u201d as non-working class members who look for help from classes other than the ones they belong to. Socialists are interested in improving social conditions<\/a> and they think it\u2019s possible to do so by improving the existing political system, rather than through the total social change the Communists call for. While socialism of the time has some things in common with Communism, such as opposing the Bourgeoisie and supporting the Proletariat, its goals are different. The manifesto discusses three kinds of socialism: reactionary, conservative\/bourgeois, and critical-utopian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working Class Parties<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Communists support any movement that rebels against the social and political conditions of the day. Therefore, they support working class parties. The only differences between the Communists and working class parties are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Most working class parties focus on conditions in certain countries, but the Communists are interested in the entire international Proletariat.<\/li>
  • The Communists are interested in the movement of class struggles as a whole, not simply specific incidents.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The Communists specifically support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • The English Chartists, an early working-class movement.<\/li>
    • The American Agrarian Reformers, who want to put land in the hands of the state.<\/li>
    • The French Social-Democrats, who oppose the Bourgeoisie. (However, the Communists don\u2019t wholeheartedly agree with all the details of the Revolution.)<\/li>
    • The Swiss Radicals, who are anti-clerical. (However, some of their members are Bourgeoisie.)<\/li>
    • The Polish group that supports agrarian revolution as the main method for national emancipation and instigated the 1846 Cracow insurrection.<\/li>
    • The German Bourgeoisie as it revolts against the monarchy, petty bourgeoisie, and feudal squirearchy. However, once the German Bourgeoisie is established, the Communists will support the emerging Proletariat.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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