The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx And Frederick Engels

The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels discusses the history of class conflicts. Marx and Engels talks about how the direction of all the societies is determined by the modes of production. Modes of production are the varied ways that human beings produce the means in order to survive and continue to support human beings. Marx specifically believed that modes of production could characterize human history. They believe that once the mode of production does not satisfy the societies there will be a revolution between the classes. Marx and Engels predict that if a revolution does occur in the future, it will be between the proletariat and the bourgeoisies. A proletariat is someone who is in the working class or would be working what is known as a …show more content…
With communism there is no private ownership of land, so all members of the society can more equally own land. When Marx talks about private property though he does not necessarily mean owning property. Instead he is referring to the fruits of someone’s labor. Workers do no receive any property from the work that they do. Instead the bourgeoisie controls the property. By abolishing private property, the labor that the workers do, is not just for the owners of the factories anymore but instead for the workers themselves. With this type of society all of the members will benefit because there will not be any dividing line of who belongs in what classes and everyone would be seen as equal. This could be known as a cooperative society. A cooperative society is defined as a group of people who would voluntarily to meet common economic, cultural, and social needs. If the lower class goes against the Bourgeoisies and sets up a communist society, then they can make a society based on class a thing of the