The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• In what year is Bellamy's narrator addressing us?
• What year is he "looking back" on?
• How are classes like nations?
• What are the four "nations" he describes?
• To which of these nations does he belong? To which do you belong?
• What about the way he lived in his youth would shock his contemporaries?
• What is "the coach?" Who is the driver?
• What positions are possible for people in relation to the coach?
• What is the goal of everyone's life?
• How do people on the coach relate to those pulling it?
• How is the world the narrator speaks in different from that he speaks of?

• What is the "water tank?" What is the "water?"
• How do the capitalists and the people relate?
• What is the importance of "profit?"
• How might abundance lead to want?
• Who are the soothsayers? What do they tell the people?
• What are the prophecies of the false priests?
• What role does charity play? Why is it bitter?
• Who comprises the military force?
• What do the capitalists do with the excess water while the people thirst?
• What is the message of the agitators? What remedy do they offer?
• What is the opinion of the true priests?

• How is Communism like a spectre?
• What does it mean to say that the history of society to this point has been "the history of class struggles?"
• What kinds of class relations have existed in the past? What kind do Marx and Engels present as preeminent in their own time?
• How does this relate to class relations in our own time?
• Who are the Bourgeoisie? The Proletariat?
• What developments precipitated the current class struggle?
• How have the nature of class relations changed under the current system?
• What have become of "religious and political illusions?"
• How are the instruments of production crucial to the arguments made here?
• What is the role of globalization? Urbanization?
• What is dehumanizing about the work of the proletarians? How do they relate to the machines?
• How are women and children treated under the new system?
• What is the difference between reactionary and revolutionary forces?
• What is the relationship between class struggle and political struggle?
• How are the Communists related to the proletariat in its entirety?
• How might Communist theory be "summed in the single sentence?"
• How is capital "a social power?"
• How do Marx and Engels define property?
• How and why would the Communists change the institution of the family?
• What does it mean to say women are considered "instruments of production" themselves?
• What is "community of women?"
• Which social structure seems to offer more to women that under Capitalism or that under Communism?
• Why do are working men said to "have no country?"
• What are the ten primary goals of Communism and what ends do they serve?
• Which of these goals have been embraced by our contemporary society? Do you think of them as related to Communism?
• What are the benefits of a classless society?
• How do Marx and Engels relate to other forms of socialism? What are their critiques?
• What do they think of Critical-Utopian socialism?
• What relationship do they propose between actual social change and literary representations of social change?
• Which of Marx and Engels' forecast changed have come to pass?