Karl Marx's and Frederick Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party, the most influential work in the history of socialism, focused on the idea of historical development, the importance of the economic mode of production, the role of class struggle and the nature of social and political change. Among the topics they discussed was the development of the proletariat from a disorganized group of industrial workers to a unified class in opposition to the bourgeoisies.
Marx and Engels saw the development of the proletariat as inevitable due to their belief of the importance of the role of class…