The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto was first published on the eve of the revolutions of which shook things up in Europe in 1848. It was written by Communists, that assembled their thoughts and views in order to directly tell of their goals, views and clear up any miscommunications. The audience targeted is the public, therefore being somewhat general and easy to comprehend; it was to act as a window, a widened view on Communism, as a theory and political communist movement. This book is composed of four sections, the first part dealing with Communists’ theory of history and the relationship between proletariats and bourgeoisie. In the second part, Marx explains the relationship between the Communists and the proletarians. The third part addresses the weaknesses in other, previous socialist literature, and the final part discusses the relationship between the Communists and other parties.

According to Marx there are two different types of social classes: the bourgeoisies and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie are capitalists, who own the means of production(capital, land, and factories) and the proletarians, are the working classes who are employed by the bourgeoisies. He discusses how at first, society started out leveled and then began to become unequal. Systems such as feudalism, mercantilism and capitalism improved from the use of exploitation. Marx goes on to say that the economic situation is what makes history, building the struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat which would eventually lead to communism. Marx addresses how bourgeoise have always got what they wanted, stating that the bourgeoisie "has agglomerated population, centralized means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands” (?). Marx asserts tha...

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...ay in power and in order to expand and exploit the market. They left the opposing class, the proletariats, with nothing but poor living conditions and unlivable(unmanageable) wages. It was evident that they had created their own monster and they would not be able to stop. They divisions in the society they created made it apparent that the bourgeois were unfit to have control over this society. They were on a downward spiral and only going faster, they were their “own gravediggers.” They had become too reliant on the proletariats and preoccupied with with its market and accumulation of money. This ultimately left the proletariats being supplied with the means to destroy the bourgeois by the bourgeois. The bourgeois were ……… going to destroy themselves because they went too big too quick ultimately and ironically leaving and sealing their fate with the proletariats.