Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx And Engels

Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was written during a time that society had a lot going on. The society was a communist society which was where the wealthiest people collected most resources. So, the people were separated into economic classes based on wealth. The economic classes were the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie were the middle class who owned businesses with the goal of earning a profit and controlled all elements of society including livelihood of the lower class. While the proletarians were the lower class who were people who worked for hourly wages on the land or in factories. Proletarians could only live if they could find work and the distinctions of age and sex are not becoming important any more. Most of the proletarians were getting paid less because machines started to become their job so they would lose less money the more machines there were. At this time, they were based on wealth by the means of production. The Means of production was who owns the most resources necessary to produce what the people needed to survive. But, the middle class was taking over due to capitalism. Capitalism is an economic and political system where a country’s trade is controlled by owners and not by the government. “The bourgeoisie, historically, …show more content…
But, it also agreed with Marx on prediction of the future and the outcome of the world. Marxism is a supporter of the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Soviet Union did fulfill these ideas because they see that these ideas would have helped the lower class to be paid and have the products to survive. Marx and Engels ideas would pave a path for what would happen to the bourgeois and proletarians in the future and what kind of society would take over wants Marxist