The Communist Manifesto

Both Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet and Karl Marx develop theories that include reducing or abolishing inequality. In fact, the two do share many similarities in regards to their beliefs in equality. With so many similarities, the two theories will be defined by their differences in comparison to one another. The main difference between Condorcet and Marx is that they do not share the same definition for equality nor the same intentions. Marxism strives for pure equality, in that everyone shares…

owned the factories and the means of production. Marx and Engels believed that the bourgeoisie made their money off of their employees, the working class, what they termed as the proletariat. The rich got richer while the poor got poorer. The Communist Manifesto also stated that the working class will rebel against the rich to take the wealth the they deserve. However, unlike most revolutions where they win and claim the wealth and power, the rebels would…

There are great differences between the Enlightenment ideas and the ideas of communism in the book called the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, however there appears to be some similarities between the ideas of one another even though both Enlightenment and the rise of communism are in different time periods. The three enlightenment philosophers that greatly inspired Marx in creating communism and his book were Voltaire, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. These three philosophers believed in…

The industrial Revolution brought a lot of changes to the process of industrialization. It was a revolution in every sense of term. Although, some of the changes benefited society, others may have caused harm to most of society. The gains of the industrial revolution in England from the 1780s to the 1850s, some may have said it was not worth the pain that they had to experience, which affected the working class of England. The working class had to experience hard work and living conditions. Even…

The working class didn’t just want their pay to be higher but for the conditions like the safety to improve. The communist movement allowed the employees of this time to have hope that things could change, which they did. Since children were working by the age of 7 they wouldn’t be able to get an education anymore. They had to work in factories and operate simply machines…

problems mostly involved the rankings in society between the middle class and the poor workers. These problems extended to the Netherlands on how the rich looked down at the poor. The ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the authors of the Communist Manifesto, were exceptionally different from the ideas of Abraham Kuyper as seen in their religion or absence thereof, the audience to which they were speaking, as well as the time and setting in which they wrote their books. Marx and Kuyper both…

Review of the Manifesto of the Communist Party Before I write the review of the actual text of the manifesto, there is a few thoughts, questions, and ramblings that I would like to use as a preface to the actual review. First, there seems to be a repulsion in some western, and strongly capitalistic, societies to actually engage in the task of understanding thought that is foreign or different from the prevalent thinking. This seems to be the case when speaking about Marxist and/or…

religion, or political group then the seeds for revolution have already been sown. But given the works of Rousseau, Marx and Colbert it seems that society has been organized in a completely imbalanced manner. Using Discourses on Inequality, Communist Manifesto, and Colbert’s segments on campaign finance, it can be argued that society is structurally unequal and designed to favor the rich. When Rousseau spoke about the nature of inequality among man, he spoke about how changes in the equality of…

In The Communist Manifesto, the concept of class division is central to Karl Marx’s analysis of social stratifications in a capitalist society. Marx argues that the ideology of the ruling class works to selectively determine the driving social, economic, cultural, and political doctrines of a society in order to position different bodies in ways that cater to dominant ideological interests. Although it seems that Marx’s broader criticism is primarily concerned with hierarchical divisions on the…

The Communist Manifesto was written in the mid 1800’s by Carl Marx and Freidrich Engles. The purpose of this document was to bring equality to all people, particularly the working class, or the Proletariat. The Communists want to do this by bringing the Proletariat to power, abolishing private property, and spreading their revolution to other countries. In order to spread communism, first the Proletariat must become the ruling class. The Proletariat is the working class, and they can not move…