Discussion of basic points of the Manifesto. Historical legacy of Marxism. Historicism Events are determined or influenced by conditions or processes beyond man's control. Social and cultural phenomena determined by history. Teleology Use of ultimate purpose or design as a means of explaining natural phenomena.
All history is future-directed.
Humanism Placing man at center of history. 2 - Put ruling class at notice of the revolutionaries' intentions. Expresses both hopes and threats. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.