The Importance of Class Positions in Proletariat

I think you have to be able to distinguish what the manifesto says and the underlying philosophy and positions of the manifesto. Now my hunch is that Marx and Engels would be astonished and probably pretty appalled in most cases by among other things, precisely as you say. But the fundamental dynamic that they identified for my money remains not just persuasive but indispensable. I don't think you can do that without identifying a class opposition under capitalism.