In Class Lab Looking as Incorporating Sources

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Carlos Franqui once said “[He] believe[d] that the communist system’s strength and power [laid] in its unlimited capacity for total destruction” (175). He stated in his journal article Strengths and Weaknesses of Communism that this was because communism destroys the riches, culture, and other things a society has acquired, destroys opposition, and then puts the society in a state of non-renewal (175).

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Frederick Engels, one of the founders of communism, had the Belief that there is something called the proletariat. He defined a proletariat as “that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital.” According to Engels in his 1947 writing The Principles of Communism, proletariats hadn’t always existed, but in fact “originated in the industrial revolution, which took place in England in the last half of the last (18th) century, and which has since then been repeated in all the civilized countries of the world.”