Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto forecasted the downfall of capitalism and the rise of communism. It predicted that the communist revolution was most likely to take place first in Britain or Germany because of their high population of proletarian factory workers. However, he was proved incorrect because these factory workers were happy with their conditions and felt no need to revolt. The Communist Manifesto appeals mostly to the lowest of the lower class, what …showed first 75 words of 558 total…

…showed last 75 words of 558 total…however at the time when it was published it did not catch on in either place. In Britain, the Manifesto came too late; the window of opportunity for a revolt had passed and now the people were happy. In Germany, the Manifesto was ahead of its time. Marx predicted Germany would be one of the first countries to adopt communism, but in fact it took thirty years for the conditions to be right for revolt.