Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians

• What is the history of all "hitherto existing socieities"?
• How has the rise of bourgeois society affected this?
• What role did the spread of trade to the Americas and Asia play in the course of history?
• What effect did increasing demand for products have on economic history?
• Whence came the bourgeoisie?
• What has "the executive of the modern state" become?
• How do the bourgeois relate to the proletariat? How has culture changed?
• Did Marx and Engels have a realistic view of the bourgeoisie?
• Upon what does the existence of the bourgeoisie depend? How does this differ from earlier classes?
• What has been the effect of the dominance of the bourgeoisie on nations?
• What to the bourgeoisie use to "batter down" national walls?
• What dependencies has the bourgoisie created?
• What has been the effect of capitalism on population, the means of production, and property?
• What is the connection, if any, between feudalism and capitalism?
• Are the bourgeoisie in control of the future?
• What absurdity arises from capitalist production?
• How do the bourgeoisie overcome economic crises?
• Who will bring down the bourgeoisie?
• What is required if worker are to be able to find work?
• What happens to job requirements and wages as capitalism progresses?
• How is work turned into slavery?
• How is this process especially harmful to men?
• How does the proletariat grow over time?
• How do the proletarians organize? What's the process?
• Whom do the bourgeoisie find themselves fighting against? How does this battle affect the proletariat?
• What is the culmination of the class struggle?
• Why is the proletariat the only "really revolutionary class"?
• "The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority." Is this an accurate description of the evolution of the world economy?
• What are the bourgeoisie incompetent to rule?
• What does wage-labor depend upon? Why will the "advance of industry" bring wage-labor to an end?

Section 2: Proletarians and Communists

• How do the Communists stand in relation to the proletarians?
• How did the Communists develop their theoretical conclusions?
• What is the distinguishing feature of Communism?
• Does wage-labor create property for the workers? What does it create?
• What kind of power does Capital possess?
• What is the average price of wage-labor?
• How does labor differ under Communism compared to under capitalism?
• How will communist production and distribution be organized?
• What specific measures do the Communists promote?
• Why will political power disappear under Communism?

What's your assessment of these ideas? Was this a practical program, based on an insightful analsysis of the necessary future course of economic evolution? Or was this a visionary program, based on unsound social and psychological principles? Or was it something else?

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