The infamous and influential political pamphlet published by Karl Marx in 1848 named ‘The Communist Manifesto’ opens with the famous words "The history of all hitherto societies have been the history of class struggles," and begins to elaborate his proposal. In part 1 of his pamphlet, "Bourgeois and Proletarians," Marx defines his vision of history, focusing on the development and subsequent destruction of the bourgeoisie, the dominant class of his time. Before the bourgeoisie rose to importance, society was arranged according to a feudal order run by aristocratic landowners and corporate guilds. With the discovery of America by the Europeans and the ensuing development of economic markets, a new social class arose, a manufacturing class, which
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Marx notices that the interests of communists hardly differ from the interests of the proletariat as a population; they stride to only to develop a class realization in the proletariat, a essential condition of eventual proletariat liberation. The main objective of communists and the revolutionary proletariat is the eradication of privately owned property, for it is this the reason that keeps them enslaved. Capitalism dictates that the owners of the means of production pay workers only enough to ensure their basic physical subsistence and reproduction. In other words, the existence of aristocratic property, or capital as Marx calls it, depends on its drastically unequal distribution. The only way the proletariat can free itself from bourgeois mistreatment is to eliminate capitalism. In accomplishing this goal, the proletariat will extinguish all remnants of the bourgeois lifestyle which act to continue. This includes family organization, religion, morality, etc. The result of this struggle will be "an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the development of all" as Marx puts …show more content…
The communist involvement to this ongoing revolution will be the raising of the property question, for any revolutionary movement which does put this question to light is incapable to successfully liberate people from tyranny. As Marx roars in conclusion, "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES,
Marx notices that the interests of communists hardly differ from the interests of the proletariat as a population; they stride to only to develop a class realization in the proletariat, a essential condition of eventual proletariat liberation. The main objective of communists and the revolutionary proletariat is the eradication of privately owned property, for it is this the reason that keeps them enslaved. Capitalism dictates that the owners of the means of production pay workers only enough to ensure their basic physical subsistence and reproduction. In other words, the existence of aristocratic property, or capital as Marx calls it, depends on its drastically unequal distribution. The only way the proletariat can free itself from bourgeois mistreatment is to eliminate capitalism. In accomplishing this goal, the proletariat will extinguish all remnants of the bourgeois lifestyle which act to continue. This includes family organization, religion, morality, etc. The result of this struggle will be "an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the development of all" as Marx puts …show more content…
The communist involvement to this ongoing revolution will be the raising of the property question, for any revolutionary movement which does put this question to light is incapable to successfully liberate people from tyranny. As Marx roars in conclusion, "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES,