The Communist Manifesto

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The Communist Manifesto

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have the world to gain. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!” These are the last words of The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto lays out the objectives, principals, and ideas of the Communist point of view.
The Communist Manifesto consists of 4 sections. The first section discusses the Communist’s theory of history and the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The second section explains the relation between the Communists and the bourgeoisie. In the third section, Marx points out the problems with the other previous socialist and communist literature. The final section points out the political plan for Communism.
Marx explains in the first section the nature and the history of the bourgeoisie. The topic of class antagonism is brought up. In the past there has always been a conflict between classes in a society. Every conflict has either ended in a revolutionary construction of the society or a particular class has been ruined. Marx points out that the class antagonism has split society into two feuding classes, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The bourgeoisie class consists of Capitalists, which are the owners of the means of production. The proletariat class contains the working class. The bourgeoisie have been the reason for several revolutions in the mode of production. They were the ones that gave the development of the Modern Industry. The bourgeoisie also started the world-market. These were the people that had most of all the political say in the state. The state merely just followed what the bourgeoisie wanted. In order for the bourgeoisie to survive they have to keep revolutionizing means of production.
With the new Modern Industry the proletarians have become the majority of society because of ...