The topics Engels discusses are communism, the proletariat and its origin, wage labor, comparisons between proletarians, slaves, serfs, handicraftsmen and manufacturing workers, the consequences of the industrial revolution, crisis, the "new social order" of communism, the possibility of the abolition of private property before the industrial revolution, whether such an abolition can take place peacefully, the revolution and its global character, the consequences of the abolition of private property, the influence of communist society on the family, nationalities, and religions, the differences between communists and other groups of socialists at the time, and the attitude of communists to the political parties of the time.