Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx Analysis

Karl Marx opens the Communist Manifesto by stressing the importance of an equal class system where the proletariat, the majority, leads the society not the bourgeois, the minority. Throughout the Manifesto, Marx explains the goals of communism from class struggles, to the exploitation of the proletariat. The main ideas Marx states is that there is class conflict and struggles, that there are two new industrial classes, that Capitalist economies have failed and society has lowered because of this, and finally that Capitalism will fail and something new will form out of the ashes. But to truly understand what Marx means by this, you must have understanding of his ideals. In the modern industrial society Marx identifies two main classes, the Bourgeois and the Proletariat. The Bourgeois before industrial society were originally “men of the town,” but it now would become the social class that owns the means of production, and who seek to have economic domination. As Marx states, the bourgeois “has left no other bond between man and

The Proletariat before industrial society were originally serfs and slaves, but with industrialization the became the industrial working class whose only value was their ability to work. The proletariat in Marx’s view were “... A class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.” (15) The relationship between these two social classes is seen by Marx as wrong because the Bourgeois is exploiting the Proletariat. In Marx’s words the proletariat “not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly