Summary Of The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

In “The Communist Manifesto”, Marx argues that one of the goals of the communist revolution is to create a political and societal system that is compatible with the citizens that reside within its influence. He maintains the belief that human nature is the desire to invent and thrive within a community of their conception, and that said community is designed to benefit the people mutually as they serve within it. Marx’s argument regarding human nature assists our understanding of the present stage in the development of capitalism, and his critical perspective allows us to learn lessons about our natural instincts and needs from our society as human beings.
However, Marx’s worldview leaves questions about the persistence of the “bourgeois class” unanswered, due to his assumption that …show more content…
His readers learn that they are capable of constructing a new societal structure to replace the existing system once it has stopped serving to benefit them. Marx demonstrates this idea by explaining how the bourgeois came into power arising out of the feudal system, and how inevitably the proletariat class would do the same to change their society and erase the bourgeois class. “The feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces… Into their place stepped free competition,...and political sway of the bourgeois class” (Marx 296). He teaches his readers that once the community ceased to be mutually beneficial, they are able to adapt and replace the current civilization with a new one. Marx’s writing in “The Communist Manifesto” calls for a complete overthrow of the existing capitalist system through a revolution of the proletariat. Marx fails to see how his ideas can be put into place without a revolution, but instead could happen in a much less radical way, yet still be effective in creating a more favorable