The Comparison of identities in the Communist Manifesto and Introduction from the Second Sex.
Clear Yingxin Xu This paper discusses connection between two different identities - the social class and gender, the former of which is valued the most in Karl Marx's the Communist Manifesto, and the latter, in Simone de Beauvoir's Introduction from the Second Sex. Two parts will be divided. The first part will focus on the Communist Manifest exclusively, and answer three questions: why Marx thinks that social class is the most significant group identity, how class inequalities between bourgeoisies and proletariats form, and whether proletariat is the most revolutionary class. While the second part I would like to talk about similarities and differences …show more content…
Based on "What is women" question, Beauvoir first points out that women do not share the quality femininity. Second she noticed the phenomenon that the word "woman" is regarded not as sex, which is given but as "natural defectiveness", appendix to man and "the Other", an inessential part of society. Then Beauvoir uses historical and cultural perspectives to answer reason why woman was submissive of her inferior identity for a long time - women never separate themselves from men's past, and lacked definite resources to change inessential situation in the world which men make rules. Gladly, more and more women realized the need for equality to justify their existences and join in feminism movements. The most apparent difference between Marx's the Communist Manifesto and Beauvoir's Introduction from the Second Sex is that Marx emphasizes social class identity and illustrate the inevitability that proletariats, the communists win over bourgeoisie. "The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now against the bourgeoisie itself." To comprise wealth only to themselves, bourgeoisies use productive force to solve overproduction crises, which is caused by their mode of production. While Beauvoir lays stress on woman identity and relations between man and
Clear Yingxin Xu This paper discusses connection between two different identities - the social class and gender, the former of which is valued the most in Karl Marx's the Communist Manifesto, and the latter, in Simone de Beauvoir's Introduction from the Second Sex. Two parts will be divided. The first part will focus on the Communist Manifest exclusively, and answer three questions: why Marx thinks that social class is the most significant group identity, how class inequalities between bourgeoisies and proletariats form, and whether proletariat is the most revolutionary class. While the second part I would like to talk about similarities and differences …show more content…
Based on "What is women" question, Beauvoir first points out that women do not share the quality femininity. Second she noticed the phenomenon that the word "woman" is regarded not as sex, which is given but as "natural defectiveness", appendix to man and "the Other", an inessential part of society. Then Beauvoir uses historical and cultural perspectives to answer reason why woman was submissive of her inferior identity for a long time - women never separate themselves from men's past, and lacked definite resources to change inessential situation in the world which men make rules. Gladly, more and more women realized the need for equality to justify their existences and join in feminism movements. The most apparent difference between Marx's the Communist Manifesto and Beauvoir's Introduction from the Second Sex is that Marx emphasizes social class identity and illustrate the inevitability that proletariats, the communists win over bourgeoisie. "The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now against the bourgeoisie itself." To comprise wealth only to themselves, bourgeoisies use productive force to solve overproduction crises, which is caused by their mode of production. While Beauvoir lays stress on woman identity and relations between man and