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Essay / The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx - 1018
The Communist Manifesto was first published on the eve of the revolutions that shook up the situation in Europe in 1848. It was written by communists who gathered their thoughts and perspectives in order to speak directly about their goals, perspectives and clear up any communication issues. The target audience is the general public, therefore being quite general and easy to understand; it was to act as a window, an expanded vision on communism, as a theoretical and political communist movement. This book is composed of four sections, the first part dealing with the communist theory of history and the relations between proletariat and bourgeoisie. In the second part, Marx explains the relations between communists and proletarians. The third part addresses the weaknesses of other earlier socialist writings, and the final part discusses the relationship between communists and other parties. According to Marx, there are two different types of social classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie is made up of capitalists who own the means of production (capital, land and factories) and the proletarians are the working classes employed by the bourgeoisies. He explains how, at first, society started to be leveled and then started to become unequal. Systems such as feudalism, mercantilism, and capitalism improved through the use of exploitation. Marx goes on to say that the economic situation is what makes history, constructing the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat that would ultimately lead to communism. Marx explains that the bourgeois always got what they wanted, stating that the bourgeoisie "agglomerated the population, centralized the means of production and concentrated property in a few hands" (?). Marx states that...... middle of paper ...... they were in power and with the aim of expanding and exploiting the market. They left the opposite class, the proletariat, with mediocre living conditions and unlivable (unmanageable) wages. It was obvious they had created their own. They were a monster and they couldn't stop. The divisions in the society they created showed that the bourgeois were not fit to control that society. They were in a downward spiral and only getting faster, they were their “own gravediggers”. » They had become too dependent on the proletariats and preoccupied with the market and the accumulation of money. This ultimately left the proletariats equipped with the means to destroy the bourgeois. The bourgeois were going to ……… destroy themselves because they left. too big too quickly finally and ironically leaving and sealing their fate to the proletariats.