Karl Marx’s 10 Planks of Communism 

Karl Marx’s 10 Planks to seize power and destroy freedom was included in The Communist Manifesto, an 1848 political pamphlet commissioned by the Communist League, and originally published in London.  The manifesto presented an approach to class struggle, placing blame on the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production.  The manifesto is a summary of the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels regarding the nature of society and politics.  The document predicted the demise of capitalism, and its inevitable replacement by socialism.  The authors, to achieve the transition to socialism, call for a “forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”