Similarities Between Marx And Engel's Communist Manifesto
Essay on Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto
Throughout Marx and Engle’s Communist Manifesto it is clear that the two display a disposition against the Bourgeoisie, but why is this? From the very first page it is clear that Marx has a strong belief in the hierarchical arrangements of the classes as he opens the manifesto with “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” this sentence in itself is a powerful statement. Marx believed that, Capitalism, which was not a good thing (in his eyes) was fueled by the Bourgeoisie class. That one day this “bourgeoisie dictatorship” would one day, be overthrown by a conflict between this and the Proletariat class. He talks about how the bourgeois has changed society, …show more content…
They have rather just changed these into new and differing more general classes, these of course being the proletariat (working class) and the bourgeoisie (upper class). At one point in the manifesto Marx talks about how the Proletarians are “a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.” (pg. 15). He believes that the bourgeois class takes these proletarians as a commodity, only needing them so long as they could increase their own wealth. This does not need any analyzing to see that it is a wrongful view, they are still people none the less, and when a worker only lives half as long as the factory owner, that is not just. I think one moment that I believe describes in whole how the authors felt about the bourgeoisie is stated on the last page, “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have the world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”(pg. 44). In this he concludes his entire manifesto basically stating how much the bourgeoisie has stomped on the hands of the proletarians, stating
Throughout Marx and Engle’s Communist Manifesto it is clear that the two display a disposition against the Bourgeoisie, but why is this? From the very first page it is clear that Marx has a strong belief in the hierarchical arrangements of the classes as he opens the manifesto with “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” this sentence in itself is a powerful statement. Marx believed that, Capitalism, which was not a good thing (in his eyes) was fueled by the Bourgeoisie class. That one day this “bourgeoisie dictatorship” would one day, be overthrown by a conflict between this and the Proletariat class. He talks about how the bourgeois has changed society, …show more content…
They have rather just changed these into new and differing more general classes, these of course being the proletariat (working class) and the bourgeoisie (upper class). At one point in the manifesto Marx talks about how the Proletarians are “a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.” (pg. 15). He believes that the bourgeois class takes these proletarians as a commodity, only needing them so long as they could increase their own wealth. This does not need any analyzing to see that it is a wrongful view, they are still people none the less, and when a worker only lives half as long as the factory owner, that is not just. I think one moment that I believe describes in whole how the authors felt about the bourgeoisie is stated on the last page, “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have the world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”(pg. 44). In this he concludes his entire manifesto basically stating how much the bourgeoisie has stomped on the hands of the proletarians, stating