Alex De Tocqueville Analysis
Question One:
How would Marx analyze the information contained in the article? Karl Marx and Frederick Engels are well known for their contributions to socio-economics which was displayed in their writing of The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels wanted society to establish a classless system in which the proletariat would rise up over the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie represented the ruling class which had been established as a result of the failed system of feudalism in the 1800s. Marx believed that the bourgeoisie could rule only so long as it best represented the economically productive forces of society and that when it ceased to do so it would be destroyed and replaced and eventually this cycle would continue until there was a virtually classless society. In his writing Marx argues that the proletariat needs to overtake the bourgeoisie by means of a social revolution. He believes that due to Industrialism the proletariats have learned how to work together and will thus untie to overthrow the bourgeoisie. The proletariats had become the productive class, even though they …show more content…
As mentioned before, Alex de Tocqueville visited both Birmingham and Manchester and saw numerous differences in the two cities which he believes led Engels to falsely assume that all of England was living under the same intolerable conditions that were occurring in Manchester. Boyer also draws on Briggs to further prove his theory and Briggs says “if Engels had lived not in Manchester, but in Birmingham, his conception of class and his theories of the role of class in history might have been very different.”(1998; 157) Manchester at this time is painted to be a sort of hell and detestable place to live by numerous people including Charles Dickenson, Tocqueville, and Napier. Napier even referred to it as “the chimney of the world…the entrance to hell realized” (1998;
How would Marx analyze the information contained in the article? Karl Marx and Frederick Engels are well known for their contributions to socio-economics which was displayed in their writing of The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels wanted society to establish a classless system in which the proletariat would rise up over the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie represented the ruling class which had been established as a result of the failed system of feudalism in the 1800s. Marx believed that the bourgeoisie could rule only so long as it best represented the economically productive forces of society and that when it ceased to do so it would be destroyed and replaced and eventually this cycle would continue until there was a virtually classless society. In his writing Marx argues that the proletariat needs to overtake the bourgeoisie by means of a social revolution. He believes that due to Industrialism the proletariats have learned how to work together and will thus untie to overthrow the bourgeoisie. The proletariats had become the productive class, even though they …show more content…
As mentioned before, Alex de Tocqueville visited both Birmingham and Manchester and saw numerous differences in the two cities which he believes led Engels to falsely assume that all of England was living under the same intolerable conditions that were occurring in Manchester. Boyer also draws on Briggs to further prove his theory and Briggs says “if Engels had lived not in Manchester, but in Birmingham, his conception of class and his theories of the role of class in history might have been very different.”(1998; 157) Manchester at this time is painted to be a sort of hell and detestable place to live by numerous people including Charles Dickenson, Tocqueville, and Napier. Napier even referred to it as “the chimney of the world…the entrance to hell realized” (1998;