What would the thesis statement of The Communist Manifesto be? Where in the book do you find it?

If there
is a single thesis statement in the Communist Manifesto, it is this, found
in the introduction to the document:

[N]ot only has the
bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the
men who are to wield those weaponsthe modern working classthe proletarians.

This statement sums up the core arguments of the
Manifesto: history is properly understood in terms of class relations based
on economic terms; conflict between social classes advances history; industrial development has
created the bourgeoisie and the proletariat; and history is moving inevitably toward the
destruction of the former by the latter.

The context for the
Manifesto was the revolutions that convulsed Europe in 1848revolutions
which Marx and Engels saw as harbingers of the open class confrontation that would destroy the
bourgeoisie. By this point, the authors argued, the bourgeoisie had become so powerful and had
so thoroughly ripped apart the traditional forces...

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