What are the main ideas of the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
Why is industrial capitalism good?
In what ways is it bad?
What is the fatal weakness of capitalism that makes socialism inevitable?
What is Marx’s definition of socialism?
How do you explain the Communist successes of the twentieth century?
Why was there a successful Communist Revolution in Russia at the end of 1917?
Why was there a successful Communist Revolution in China in 1949?
Was this the way Marx and Engels expected socialism to succeed?
In what ways did the American Great Depression of 1929-1939 conform to Marx’s predictions?
Why was there no Communist revolution in the United States?
Why was Communism abandoned in the Soviet Union? How and why did Deng Xiao-ping change the Chinese economy?
Is there any possibility that Marxist predictions might come true in the future?
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