A factory is built out of necessity. There is a certain demand for a good or service that influences a wealthy bourgeois man to invest in the means of production of those goods. A factory creates a demand for labor, and the proletariat were eager to fill that demand after they'd been stripped of their previous occupations and traditions. The proletariat lived in overcrowded, filthy, and often dangerous and unhealthy conditions as Engels witnessed. On top of that, the factory owners and their army of supervisors exploited and abused their workers and the workers' families. Sixteen to eighteen hour workdays, six days a week; few breaks; and insufficient wages were endured by the proletariat because of the wage-labor trap they’d been forced into.
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They weren’t simply offering ideas or suggesting a course of action, Marx and Engels were fully confident that the proletariat would subdue the bourgeoisie and communism would dominate the world economy and politics. That stems from the belief that the bourgeoisie is facilitating its own downfall. Marx says, “…the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product” () Marx and Engels believe that the proletariat are the only revolutionary class because they are seeking to advance society in a new direction.
They claim that the bourgeoisie lost control of the capitalist industry it created. Overproduction resulted in destructive commercial crises which did harm to the working class, but barely fazed the bourgeois industry man. The capitalist machine kept growing and continued to overproduce and require more laborers. The proletariat laborers, Marx and Engels claim, will be responsible for the downfall of the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Manifesto is still important today because it represents a possible alternative to the industrial-capitalism that dominates the world. Like the working class of the Industrial Revolution, we face a divisive line drawn between the working class and the bourgeois one-percent. I see communism as a symbol that there could be alternatives to
They weren’t simply offering ideas or suggesting a course of action, Marx and Engels were fully confident that the proletariat would subdue the bourgeoisie and communism would dominate the world economy and politics. That stems from the belief that the bourgeoisie is facilitating its own downfall. Marx says, “…the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product” () Marx and Engels believe that the proletariat are the only revolutionary class because they are seeking to advance society in a new direction.
They claim that the bourgeoisie lost control of the capitalist industry it created. Overproduction resulted in destructive commercial crises which did harm to the working class, but barely fazed the bourgeois industry man. The capitalist machine kept growing and continued to overproduce and require more laborers. The proletariat laborers, Marx and Engels claim, will be responsible for the downfall of the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Manifesto is still important today because it represents a possible alternative to the industrial-capitalism that dominates the world. Like the working class of the Industrial Revolution, we face a divisive line drawn between the working class and the bourgeois one-percent. I see communism as a symbol that there could be alternatives to