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Bourgeoisie In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

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The Communist Manifesto was written by German philosopher Karl Marx around 1848 and published in London. It was a 23 page pamphlet, not only written by Marx but also Friedrich Engels helped too. It’s one of the most influential political readings till’ this day. In this pamphlet, Marx explains how the history and the future is mainly based on class struggle and gets into the fact that “bourgeoisie” is rising. By Marx, “Bourgeoisie” is basically defined as the modern class of Capitalists. Which are the employers of wage laborers, and the owners of production and production companies like factories etc. These are the high class and high powered people that hire and keep lower social classes intact by providing jobs and control productions. …show more content…

Everything from providing jobs to lower class people, to making money from production (which would keep economies growing), and even to connections for power (politics) because of the wealth. For example, in the 1900s, when industrialization grew drastically, factory owners, agricultural owners, and any capitalists (bourgeoisie) that kept production rolling didn’t care how bad the workers were getting treated as long as they were profiting from it. It will never stop that way, but maybe just new/current laws will have the proletariats (wage-laborers) back in some type of way to keep them going. The Manifesto is basically an overview of how in past history and even until today/future, it shows that with such wealth comes …show more content…

In the 19th century production meant a lot and grew so rapidly because of new inventions and innovations from vehicles to railroads and even communication devices like the telegraph. With all of that said, comes more production forces and as the Manifesto explains how the “means of production” grew because of these innovations in the 19th century. This all lead to free trade which helped nations economies grow and expand, and because of production and products became so abundant prices were getting lower. It made goods, innovations and ideas float everywhere, which eventually lead the world to become much more experienced and cultivated. Although, it started making people that they can be anyone and that their past generations didn’t determine their status in life anymore. But the main issue this all lead to be that wealth and power was never equally distributed. At that time, it was about ten percent of the population in the world basically owned all of the property. Most likely the rest of the world were made up of proletarians and owned nothing but sold their labor for money, which eventually would circulate back in the economy in order for them to survive. So the main question was where is the middle class anymore? They were starting to fall below and it was only the rich and the poor. Soon enough the proletarians wouldn’t even be able to realize what the global and economic system is doing to them

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