Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)

Who was the target readership of the text? What motivated the author to write the text? Consider your target and the genre. What does this text reveal about the principles and way of life of those who experienced the Industrial Revolution? Provide your examples. In a final paragraph, you will discuss whether or not this text lived up to the expectations you had for Karl Marx's writings. Following your reading and analysis of this primary source, did your perspective on Karl Marx change? Did you come across anything surprising in the source?