In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels

One of the world great influential political manuscripts is the Communist Manifesto which was published in 1921 (Friedrich 13). Written by Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it outlined the Communist Leagues aims and agenda. It offered an analytical evaluation of the antagonism among classes both in the past and present and the problems of capitalism in a clear way that justified communism and its tenets in the society.

The manifesto had highlighted a specter of communism that was going to affect Europe and how the major European powers had grouped together to campaign against the ideas of communism. According to Carl Marx, there has been a constant struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed for a long time in history and the struggle can be hidden or in some cases open but each time the struggle ends, there is a complete change in the classes in the society or cessation of existence of most lower classes (Zodiac and Brian, 4).

The growth of the modern rich elite who control the poor majority is a result of many revolutions in mode of production and trade. Class struggle is mainly between those who own the means of production and those who have to work in the production areas or industries in order to be paid wages. The rise of the current bourgeois is as a result of changes in the mode of production and trade which resulted to new methods of production and industrial revolution.
             
The proletariats are the workers in the bourgeois businesses forming the class of laborers who live long as they can work and are allowed to work only when their labor increases the capital of the bourgeois. Proletarians are subject to the bourgeois in the market and are treated like commodities and in similar cases, the cost of production is reduced and the wages of the workers minimized in order to make use of workers labor power. Proletarians are just paid wages for their sustenance and that of their families. With the rise in division of labor, the work of proletariat is localized to the industry machinery and as mechanization and division of labor is increased resulting to boredom in the proletariats works. Marx says one time the proletarians will rise to power for the reason of revolutions against the bourgeois through riots and unions. The proletariats will one time erupt into rebellion and cast off their strings which bind them to the bourgeois. They will eventually condemn all the bourgeois laws, morality, religions, and all the bourgeois business interests. They will tear the society apart and destroy the bondage to the bourgeois and the ownership of private property.
             
This revolution will come to be as a result of the bourgeois greed to enrich themselves by bringing the proletariat into existence and then undermining the proletariats living condition leading to diminishing of the proletariat. Furthermore, divisions among laborers began to dissolve, as all jointly equally low wages and equally uncertain livelihoods. The proletariat is united by the improved means of communication made possible by current industry, allowing for the struggles to take on nationwide character (SparkNotes Editors). The proletariats represent an exceptional class which is well linked by enhanced communications and by their wretched conditions which they share in common. They are also the mass in the world and their numbers keep on increasing.

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