Why is all recorded history "the history of class struggles"?
Why is the capitalist state "but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie"?
Why does capital's need of a constantly expanding market "chase the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe"?
Why is the "proletarian movement the self-conscious movement of the immense majority, in the interests of the immense majority"?
Why does the fight for "the proletariat organized as the ruling class" open the only way forward for humanity?
These questions - addressed by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in the historic program of the first modern communist workers organization - remain as vital as they were a century and a half ago.