Analysis of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explains the good parts of the communist system and how it should still apply to the future. They also predicted how the Communist Manifesto can stabilize the class structure without conflict. They talks about how especially through the increase in productivity, the power of the bourgeois class increases. They argues that the social class struggle is the reason for historical developments and if there are no more classes then there is no reason to worry about class antagonism. Karl Marx wrote this to warn about the dangers in capitalism. Through the idea of communism, Marx says that the society would not have to be divided into social classes. Marx is saying that society is split up between two classes, the bourgeois and the proletarians. As the movements of machinery increase and the worker’s wages fluctuate, the social classes will go through conflict and destruction. Japan is an example Marx has predicted through his theory of class division. Since Japan opened up to the outside world and started modernizing, the class distinction is clearly shown. This theory by Marx can be proven by the novel Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki. The novel Sanshiro reveals the unstable balance in the Japanese society through the observations and adventure that Sanshiro encounters. The Communist Manifesto and the novel Sanshiro connects through the idea of change, industrialization, and division.

Karl Marx says that there needs to be a revolution in order for a drastic change to occur. After the war in Japan “everything looked as if it [was] being destroyed, and at the same time everything looked as if it [was] under construction.” (17) These buildings represent the “march of history,” where wh...

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...sible for one person to become a proletarian class to a bourgeois class. The person is as important anyone else excluding their status.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explain the goal of a communist society is to prevent class struggle and conflict. In order to do this, they believe that communism will fix the problem of class struggle. Sanshiro has a difficult time adjusting to the industrialization of Tokyo. He realizes that Japan has changed to learn western ideology. Japan becomes a capitalist country where proletarian and bourgeois classes are created. However, Marx believes that a man’s title is only a title but without it they are like anyone else.

Works Cited

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. Print.

Natsume, Sōseki, and Jay Rubin. Sanshiro: A Novel. Seattle: University of Washington, 1977. Print.