The Existence Of Crisis In Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

The current world is a place of ongoing crisis. People live and survive in a crisis cycle; one crisis after another. Either from natural occurring crisis such as hurricanes or earthquake to man made for example war or poverty. Looking at the present day crisis most will assume that crisis is a variable that is inevitable. However, there are many who disagree with the previous idea. Some believe that since the crisis is created by people it can also be destroyed by its creators. For humans are the cause of war they must be the one to end it. However, to try to end crisis one must first acknowledge its existence.
Out of many individuals who recognize the crisis, there are four different authors who proudly acknowledge the presence of crisis; most importantly, social crisis. These authors are Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair, …show more content…
He suggests the history of class “The freeman and the slave...lord and serf” must end (Marx 9). He supports the proletarians being in power rather than the bourgeois. Marx explains the bourgeois as a people who “has the upper hand…” “has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation” (Marx 11). Bourgeois are simply the relation of money, they exist in means of production and property. They only care for themselves as individuals and not as a family. On the other hand, Marx explains the proletarians as the movement of “self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority”. Unlike the bourgeois who care about money and property, proletarians care about each and every individual, they believe in “abolition of private property” (Marx 23). The proletarians believe in unity and what one has it shall be shared equally. To Marx the end of social crisis will emerge when the workers all over the world unite, rise up and demand what is