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Communism has absolutely nothing to do with improving the condition of the human race or of the working class in general, and genuinely believing it is, is a result of being trapped in enlightenment era liberal thinking. In the German Ideology, Marx and Engels outline the materialist conception of history, in which they demonstrate the decisive nature of material production in the life of the human species. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. Through this they prove the division of society into antagonistic classes, and sketch an outline of historical forms, each with its own way of organizing and socially dividing labor. Despite being only a relatively small portion of the book, it lays out Marxism nearly in its entirety: communism does not arise from a priori principles, but came into being naturally with the emergence of proletarians as a class, existing as the real movement to abolish the present state of things, or, as the theoretical expression of the conditions necessary to liberate the proletarian class. The aim of this movement is the destruction of the old society, and consequently the destruction of class society, including the self abolition of the proletarian class. Although the communists do not project their preconceived beliefs onto the world, we can know the content of the communist revolution and its aims, simply by further applying the analysis that led us to understand societal divisions in the first place,