Marxism In Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx is a German philosopher and author of ‘The communist manifesto’. He was educated in the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became involved with the young Hegelians. He shared their ideals but also expanded on them and he became a journalist for a liberal newspaper once he left University. (Biography.com)
Marx moved around a lot due to his tendency to get exiled from whatever country he happened to be writing in at the time. He fled from Cologne to Paris to avoid being arrested. While in Paris he became a communist and wrote many papers before be exiled again. He was a big backer of revolutions and believed that we live in a capitalist society which is clear from the Communist Manifesto. The proletarians

It is the rules of the class that they have been born into, with no option to change it. The proletarians have ‘no chance of arriving at the conditions which would place him in the other class.’ Marx (1932, p. 36). Basically the proletarians can do nothing about their situation without the bourgeoisies help, which they are unwilling to give. What they do is give the illusion of help by allowing the proletarians to sell their labour and give them a minute portion of the profits that they receive from the product or service being provided by the working class. This causes tension and widens the gap between the rich and poor because it benefits the rich hugely while barely benefits the working class at all. Production is the basis of everything. It separates men from animals. ‘By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life’ Marx (1932, p. 6). There is always going to be production in the world. It is the question of who produces and who profits from the production that causes controversy. The Bourgeoisie would prefer to keep it that they profit and the proletarians continue producing. While the working class profit somewhat from their produce it is the surplus profit that the bourgeoisie get that widens the gap between