Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Much of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto discusses the relationship between how a capitalist society produces its’ goods and how this affects the social structure of the society. Throughout the manifesto, Marx used the term mode of production to refer to how a given society structures its’ economic production, it also refers to how a society produces and with what capital the society produces. Human capital plays a large part in Marx’s communist manifesto, concerning himself with the relations of production, which refers to the relationship between those who own the means of production (bourgeoisie) and those who do not own the fruit of their labor (proletariat). This is where Marx believes that one can find the causes of conflict, asserting history evolves through the mode of production. The constant evolution of the mode of production toward a realization of its’ full potential productivity capacity, creates dissensions between the classes of people, which in capitalism, are defined by the modes of production (owners and workers). Marx believes that one such dissension is that since Capitalism is a mode of production based on private ownership of the means of production, and entities within a capitalistic economy produce property to be exchanged to stay competitive, these entities are forced to drive the wage level for its’ labor as low as possible so as to stay competitive. In turn, the proletariat must create means with which they can keep the interests of the bourgeoisie in check, trying to avoid being exploited to the point of extirpation. Marx holds that this example shows the inherent conflicting nature of the social infrastructure of production, which will in turn give rise to a class struggle culminating in the overthrow ...

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... his family but finally comes to admit that this job was never what he wanted to do. His dream had always been to be a chef, but he needed a job to pay off his debts and the further into life he got the more the job became harder to separate from. Simmons was alienated from the fruits of his labor, keeping a job he hated purely to support his family and continue to survive. The film also depicts the force capitalism exerts on owners to change business practices in order to stay competitive when even the termination firm had to make changes. Changing to a skype-like format for termination, the firm saved a large amount of money in fare, but further alienating the people they were firing. Both the people they were firing and the firm’s practices combine in “Up in the Air” to illustrate Marx’s ideas of how capitalism drives a stake between the owners and their workers.