Read the following excerpt from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. How has their prediction of communist revolutions played
out in real world events?
"We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class
is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of
democracy
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all
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from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands
of the State, i. e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to
increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of
despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois
production by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically
insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip
themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are
unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production

A. Several African communist groups Joined together in the Warsaw
Pact to resist European colonialism.
B. The armies of North Korea, China, and Russia invaded South Korea
in an attempt to spread communism.
C. During the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union protected North Vietnam
from an attack by South Vietnam.
D. The Russian working class overthrew the existing government to
establish a communist state.