https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/3e9e19dc-752f-4d4a-95de-89bdfcd52551 Patreon: https://patreon.com/socialismforall Discord: https://discord.com/users/755629400254316695 Mastodon: https://ioc.exchange/@socialismforall Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/socialism-for-all-s4a-intensify-8XDxD5 Reddit: https://reddit.com/user/SocialismForAll Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/socialismforall Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3byqQVsdTzhE2dOsnAUmK5 Twitch: https://twitch.tv/SocialismS4A Twitter: https://twitter.com/SocialismS4A YouTube: https://youtube.com/SocialismForAll Socialism for All does not run ads on its material. Please consider becoming a financial contributor on Patreon today for as little as $2/month! Description: This is a very early (1847) FAQ file for Communism, written by Karl Marx's main collaborator, Frederick Engels. Engels had previously written "Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith," which uses a similar, catechistic format of questions and answers, but this document is better-developed. However, Engels still did not find it satisfying and wrote to Marx, "“Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...” The original text is here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm Timestamps for those coming back to this video, or those who want a specific question answered: 0:00 Channel introduction 0:43 Front matter 1:25 1. What is Communism? 1:33 2. What is the proletariat? 2:03 3. Proletarians, then, have not always existed? 2:25 4. How did the proletariat originate? 5:39 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place? 7:05 6. What working classes were there before the industrial revolution? 7:55 7. In what way do proletarians differ from slaves? 9:11 8. In what way do proletarians differ from serfs? 10:20 9. In what way do proletarians differ from handicraftsmen? 11:28 10. In what way do proletarians differ from manufacturing workers? 12:16 11. What were the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution and of the division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat? 17:02 12. What were the further consequences of the industrial revolution? 18:25 13. What follows from these periodic commercial crises? 20:17 14. What will this new social order have to be like? 21:41 15. Was not the abolition of private property possible at an earlier time? 24:16 16. Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible? 25:12 17. Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? 25:39 18. What will be the course of this revolution? 29:50 19. Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone? 31:10 20. What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property? 36:42 21. What will be the influence of communist society on the family? 37:36 22. What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities? 38:00 23. What will be its attitude to existing religions? 38:21 24. How do communists differ from socialists? 38:29 (How do communists differ from) Reactionary Socialists 39:51 (How do communists differ from) Bourgeois Socialists 40:36 (How do communists differ from) Democratic Socialists 41:40 25. What is the attitude of the communists to the other political parties of our time? 44:05 Footnotes #s4a #socialismforall #socialism4all #revolution2030 #socialism #communism #marxism #marxismleninism #greenparty #laborunion #labormovement #engels #socialist #communist #marxist #audiobook Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:40:31 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/3e9e19dc-752f-4d4a-95de-89bdfcd52551 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.