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and mo a lutes do not exist but that a reality explained by vi­ olent st le. rx u the dialectic to justify the u of violence to overthrow capita sm and establish Communism.
In 1 7 rx and Engels were instrumental in the formation of the International Commu st Federation, the first or ni d Communist group. Then in 1 they pub shed one of the m t revolution , destructive documents history: the Com st M festo. the M esto Marx d En ls claimed that e history of a hum ie es up to the pr nt time has en the story the cla stru l " In other words, they id that iety w divided tween th who had wealth and th who didn't, and that all histo was the story of the st ggle tw n th t oups. The time had come, Marx and Engels wrote, for the proletariat to overt ow th in wer and i all wer r them lv w, moral­ ity and religion were to totally re ct since they had en invented by th in wer to oppr the we The Manifesto ended with th word e Communists o nly pr laim that the only way they can achieve their s is by the violent d truction of the old order of iety. The ruling c may well tremble at the thought of a Communist revolu­ tion! The proletarians have nothing to l in the stru e apart from their chain ey have a whole world to conquer-workers of the world unite
e evil ideas of French Revolutionary li r ism lived again in the Comm t Manifesto, but now they were ing spread throu out the world cau of the abu of capi ism, Communism was accepted by si ic t num rs dedicated, active men and women The people would t ls in the hands of th who wanted to overthrow all author­ ity in iety and concentrate all wer their own hand C istianity now faced a new and deadly enemy and would n d a its re urces to combat it
Revolution in ance
Despite the efforts of Mette ich and other traditionalists, the revolu­ tionary ideas spawned in Paris and spread by Na leon t k r t throu ­ out Euro . The first t-Na leon revolution broke out, not surprisin y, in France it lf.
ter Waterl , Louis X Louis x s brother, retu ed to the throne. Louis had fled from France during the Revolution and had not done as much to aid his brother as he rha could have, but when he came to the throne he rul re nably well He was followed by his younger brother, Charles X, who gan to rule in 18 . Charles was an a