It is well known that in the past religion and myths were just ways for societies to explain events and happenings that citizens of ancient societies did not have sufficiently advanced knowledge to understand. It was also used as a way to oppress others, as seen in the explanation of class order and kingship as God putting a person where they were supposed to be and that there was nothing that could be done about it, because who can go against God himself? However, religion has played an even bigger role, being an important part of every person's identity and something that a country and its people can unite around. But as society slowly ages and governments are reorganized and restructured, one may see a reduction in whether religion is part of someone's identity. It's hard to imagine being without an identity, so it was no surprise when, as the void left by religion opened up, people began to create an identity that had to do with different ideas and ideologies. More specifically, new political movements, ideas of nationalism and changing social norms brought forward by many writers and theorists such as Karl Marx, John Mill and many others. The spread of such ideas was also aided by the spread of public education and increasing literacy rates in Western society. The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a short publication that contains Marx and Engel's theories on the nature of society and politics, as well as class struggle, problems with capitalism, and how to slowly change the government from capitalist to socialist and finally communist. The beginning of the first chapter of the essay, "Bourgeois and proletarians", states: "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles" (... middle of the paper... trying to use nationalism to convince them , is also very convincing for nationalism in the way it talks about family by calling the Irish the children of female Ireland. Often anything is done for the family, so talking about a nation as family can help create an identity around it. Identity is defined as the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which something is definitively recognizable or known. There is a personal identity and also a national identity and, although everyone in society can change very quickly,. this can happen Without religion as a source of identity, it has become fundamentally easy for ideas and ideologies such as communism, social norms and communism to instead become a person's identity each of their identities.