The Communist Manifesto Engels in their youth—that he opposed for its violent Blanquist tendencies, and later "mature" Marxism that he supported. This latter form refers to Marx in his later life acknowledging that socialism could be achieved through peaceful means through legislative reform in democratic societies. Bernstein declared that the massive and homogeneous working-class claimed in the "Communist Manifesto" did not exist, and that contrary to claims of a proletarian majority emerging, the middle-class was growing under capitalism and not disappearing as Marx had claimed. Bernstein noted that the working-class was not homogeneous but heterogeneous, with divisions and factions within it, including socialist
Manifesto of the Province of Flanders sought to subject the brave Netherlanders to complete slavery, and treat them like the inhabitants of Moravia and Croatia." The text composed in Dutch and French by Karel Jozef de Graeve, Jean-Joseph Raepsaet and Maarten de Bast. The ideas expressed in the manifesto were primarily inspired by the United States Declaration of Independence (1776). The States of the respective Southern Netherlandish provinces united in a new confederal republic, the United Belgian States (7 January – 11 December 1790), which was reconquered after eleven months by the Imperial army. Manifesto of the Province of Flanders The Manifesto of the Province of