In this summery of the Communist Manifesto, there are three key and essential components of "Marxism" being described. The first is the belief that the bourgeois rule everything. These high or middle class citizens control the wealth and lives of everyone else. The bourgeois are exploitive, and only care for their own wealth and power as they try to gain more of it. It is also said that the government has all of its attention directed towards the wants of the bourgeois. In this way, they control the state and society, not only the economy. The second essential component of Marxism is the abolition of private property. Marks believes that property is a form of social power and not personal power. By thinking of property this way, if it becomes public, then there is no loss of personal power, but a change of social power to become more equal. The third key component of Marxism is the inclusion of revolution. This is more accurately specified as a "workers' revolution". The end goal of the communist party and of Marxism is to give immediate results by forcing society to go though a revolution, where the working class rises up and takes the power and money of the bourgeois. This would then be spread evenly for everyone to share, and create an equal society and state.
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