Characteristics Of The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto is the product and the realization of a series of revolutions. Marx breaks up history into a series of stages-each with a recurring pattern of each stage ending with a revolution. A power group, most often the nobility or the church, restructures the social dynamics after a revolution in a way that benefits them the most through social rise or economic gain. The restructuring leads to a class being exploited, which is what drives each stage. This pattern started in the ancient times and continues into the modern period where the exploited class is continually fighting for better conditions, but end up with a facade of not being exploited.
The structure of the societies in each stage is a product of the preceding stages. Since the beginning of societies, there has always been a subset of society that benefit from the exploitation of the other. Because of this social structure, revolutions occur to restructure society; however, the end result of each is not the intended one of the exploited. The benefitting subset gains more wealth and political influence after each revolution

Each stage has what is to become the bourgeoisie exploit other classes and use revolutions to their benefit. From the feudal times, the bourgeoisie used the power and the might of the peasants to overthrow the feudal systems to increase the bourgeoisie’s wealth and power. This pattern continues into the industrial period where the businessmen exploit the wage laborers. Marx sees this as the final stage before the communist revolution. This is because only now in the industrial stage, do all the factors align to enable the communist revolution. The proletariats finally realize who their real enemy is, the bourgeoisie. In previous stages the proletariat's would think the ruling class was their enemy and would align themselves with the bourgeoisie. That cycle would finally end in the eyes of Marx with the Industrial