"We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a
man's own labor, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence. Hard-won,
self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of the petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property
that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that, the development of industry has to a great extent already
destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society,
all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation
- The Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Marx and Engels refer to the "bourgeois form
bourgeoisie class of people?
of property ownership in this passage. Which group would best represent the
A. serfs in Russia
B. kings and queens of Europe
C. the wealthy upper-middle class
D. factory works during the rise of industry