Reflections of the Communist Manifesto and the Social Movement
Reflections on The Communist Manifesto and the Socialist Movement One of the most amazing ideas that immerged from the Enlightened Era was freedom of thought. The sole concept of being able to express how one feels (ideally) without fear of its consequences, lifted a burden off the shoulders of an intellectually oppressed people. Pamphlets and newspapers circulated with ideas, propaganda, and countless rebuttals to every idea presented. From these ideas and propositions came The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, an explanation of the economic state of affairs of his time and what was needed to have the most successful and prosperous brand of government. Along with his opinions came the refutation of the conservative, Edmund Burke, whose reflections were as follows. Every government needs a set of ideals to follow in order to succeed harmoniously. For many, these ideals include national and social institutions, which make up the essence of their government allowing its citizens to identify with the status quo and maintain balance in their society. The question is not which institutions should be valued for most would agree that a proper balance of these make up any government; the main question lies in which institutions a society should value in order to achieve their goal, thus separating the school of thought pertaining to conservative and liberal thinkers. The simple and straightforward institution of a hierarchy comes into play when discussing the ideas of such thinkers. Maintaining a proper government is a delicate and complicated skill only acquired by the educated, rational men set out to implement it. Said skills “require a deep knowledge of human nature… and of the things which facilitate or obstruct the various ends which are to be pursued by the mechanism of civil institutions” and is the civic duty of only certain members of society. If the government belonged to the State and was the sole property belonging to every individual within that State,