Karl Marx was a German who was a revolutionary communist along with his intellectual companion, Frederick Engels. Both lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution. Both of these men co-authored the book, The Communist Manifesto. Their views are pro-communism and anti-capitalism. Communism is when the means of production is equally owned by everyone. Meanwhile capitalism is the complete opposite being private. According to Marx and Engels the nature of capitalism is necessarily exploitative. Marx and Engels both believed that the Proletariat, the working class, was getting stomped on by the Bourgeoisie, the middle class. Capitalism is shown as exploitative by low wages, workers having no individuality, and being alienated, and the Bourgeois private property shown for real. The co-authors try their best to show the reader that the bourgeoisie is just taking
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But when machines like the Flying Shuttle and the Spinning Jenny were invented people began to work in factories since nobody could afford these inventions on their own. People began to work in these factories day to night and thus the working class was born. Since all these people needed jobs to feed their families and just survive, they are in a vulnerable place. Their employers give them the lowest wage possible and the longest hours. Men, women, and children would be working up to a 16 hour day with awfully low wages just getting the bare minimum to survive. Marx and Engels wrote that, “All that we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it”(The Communist Manifesto Marx,Engels 29). Capitalism is only using the workers for a private profit and the working class gets no benefit. In simpler terms, the rich are taking from the
But when machines like the Flying Shuttle and the Spinning Jenny were invented people began to work in factories since nobody could afford these inventions on their own. People began to work in these factories day to night and thus the working class was born. Since all these people needed jobs to feed their families and just survive, they are in a vulnerable place. Their employers give them the lowest wage possible and the longest hours. Men, women, and children would be working up to a 16 hour day with awfully low wages just getting the bare minimum to survive. Marx and Engels wrote that, “All that we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it”(The Communist Manifesto Marx,Engels 29). Capitalism is only using the workers for a private profit and the working class gets no benefit. In simpler terms, the rich are taking from the