Communist Manifesto

The first time I read the Communist Manifesto was my senior year in high school when I took AP European history.  This time around, I had a slightly different view when diving into the material than when I first read it.  This time I had more background information as to why society and politics developed as they did, instead of just knowing which part of the world it started in; having that knowledge made it a little easier to read.  One thing that I noticed while reading the Communist Manifesto is that Marx never seems to flat out say how society should function, he just spends most of the piece saying how capitalism is bad.  Marx talks about how society is being divided into two classes, bourgeoise and proletariat, and how classes are tearing society apart.  He proposes that communism, equalization of all classes, would solve this problem, but doesn't really ever explain specifically how it will change it for the better.  Personally, I enjoyed this reading because having been born in America, I've always been told communism is bad and there's nothing good about it.  Because of this reason I could never understand why if communism was so awful, that whole countries would agree to go along with this system of government.  Not to say that I think communism is the better system, but I now understand why some people may think that it's a positive direction for the government to move in.  It's just interesting to see the other side of an issue, without having the negatives thrust into the light constantly.