Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto

Glossary

• Cape Cape of Good Hope
• chartered burghers middle-class professional guilds
• complement in this context, the typical proletarian family
• Reactionists in this context, people who wanted to maintain feudalism and intellectual privilege and hence were opposed to nineteenth-century liberal and Socialist thought
• sectarian in this context, favoring the proletariat
• ten-hours' bill in England the Factory Act of 1847, which limited the working day of children to 10 hours