The Communist Manifesto

Published during the height of the European revolutions in 1848, the communist manifesto remains one of the world’s influential manuscripts in politics. Its authors, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were not only social scientists, but also political and economic theorists. The manifesto provides a clear summary of the basic ideas of communism. It has also had a deeper effect on the world’s intellectual and political history than any other pamphlet since its publishing. It provided the necessary inspiration to the nations that embraced communism. And as a result, it influenced the spread of the communism to nearly half of the world nations at its peak. This essay will review the communist manifesto by providing a summary of its contents together…

In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels argue that “These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity” (Marx and Engels 18). Respectively, a working person, according to them, becomes a commodity once they start selling their work and compete with other laborers for the buyer. By its definition, a commodity is an inanimate noun and usually applied to objects that are for sale. Therefore, the comparison of a human being to a commodity means the deprivation of one of their…

Since the initial publication of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto in 1848, his work has sparked a variety of reactions and debates around the world. Deemed as one of the most influential and still relevant pieces of political propaganda today, the Communist Manifesto inspired nation building and affected social, political, and economic policies throughout the world. The Communist Manifesto outlined Marx’s vision of a socialist society, where everyone was equal, class hierarchies were abolished,…

The Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels is a well-known political piece of writing. It’s been around since the late 1850`s and has contributed to revolutions around the world based off the message it conveys to the readers. The writing of Marx and Engels attempts to enlighten and mobilize readers who feel their message is true against a certain group of people. Marx and Engels openly explain the problems with capitalism and how there has been a huge gap between social…

To ask if labour is inherently exploitative is a loaded question, which requires a nuanced answer and a deep exploration of what ‘labour’ actually means. On the face of it, labour connotes tiring physical work for economic gain. The implication is often that the capital produced by labour is for the benefit of the worker, but as the texts I analyse further down show, this is not always the case. In this essay I will view labour through the lens of The Tempest by William Shakespeare and The…

limitations and flaws of the manifesto that founded communism itself. In the Western regions people have been living under a more peaceful and gracious government because in a Democracy citizens are given the basic needs and most importantly they people are allowed freedom of speech and the right to vote. But everything has a weak point even the Stalin 's Iron Fist broke under…

One of the most famous quotes in this book is, “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 unite!” This quote represents the main principle of communism, which is to intimidate and remove the upper class by organizing the working classes throughout the world. The communist philosophy has had many advantages and disadvantages but there are a few that have made a…

The thirtieth chapter of 18th and 19th Century Humanities speaks about the global dominion of the west, nineteenth-century social theory, realism in literature, and realism in the visual arts. More specifically, the radical views of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, the novels of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and the birth of photography. Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were lifelong friends who “shared a similar critical attitude in respect of the effects of European industrial capitalism.”…

restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labor, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labor increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by…

the situation a group faces. The First Year Seminar course at Concordia College-NY taught me several significant reforms/revolutions that have occurred that have drastically impacted humanity today. Although my section was taught numerous reforms/revolutions, I personally believe the Communist Revolution, Cultural Revolution, and the Music Revolution of the 20th Century has had the greatest influence on the well-being of the globe today. The twentieth century Communist…