Working Men of all Countries, Unite. The Communist Manifesto is a call to revolutionary action. The comforting assurance that such action is in line with historical destiny is to be found in one of the few vividly imaginative passages in Marx's major work, Capital. In general this work is so heavily interlarded with early nineteenth century British economic theory and the philosophical ideas of Hegel, which Marx twisted and applied to his own purposes, that only the most persistent and devoted communists and socialists can honestly boast of having read it through. But at the same time there is a steady intensification of the wrath of the working class - a class which grows ever more numerous, and is disciplined, unified, and organized by the very mechanism of the capitalist method of production.
Capitalism becomes a fetter upon the method of production which has flourished with it and under it.
The centralization of the means of production and the socialization of labor reach a point where they prove incompatible with their capitalist husk. This bursts asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. Here is a vision to tempt the eyes of advocates of revolutionary change, whether they favor peaceful or violent methods.