The Communist Manifesto Seminar

This seminar was based around the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 which presented and analysed the problems of a capatalist state. During this seminar three members of the group presented a seminar paper giving different interpretations of the manifesto. All three of the papers were highly informative and this led to a fairly intense group discussion where we were all able to share our opinions of Marx's ideas. The general feeling amongst the group was that even though Marx did not intend to create a plan for a new communist society it has been interpreted and adapted by dictators all over the world and used to suppress the masses in many countries such as Russia and China. This shows that a document which originally set out to solve the problems of capitalism within a country has been used in a much more brutal and controlling manner throughout the course of the 20th century until Communism's collapse in 1989.