Topic 4 Communist Manifesto Paper
In the political pamphlet “The Communist Manifesto” written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, there are a set of ideals on how the government should be run in contrast to most of the political views around the rest of the world. Marx and Engels wanted a society based on communism, which would make everyone equal by getting rid of the two social classes defined as the “Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat”. It was seen as a power to fix the problems that run rampant through the government and was seen as a “Spectre” to the rest of Europe. The beginning of the manifesto, was the comparison to feudal europe to modern day, in which the rich still ruled over the rich, and that the economy was completely run by the bourgeoisie and that they had placed “new conditions of oppression” and “New forms of struggle in place of the old ones.” ( Communist Manifesto).
Karl Marx’s vision of communism was that it would basically be the cure all for all the problems that riddled the world. Although it sounds great on paper, it was never able to fully be executed because of the fact that people had to work together in order for it to thrive. The benefits that communism would bring was supposed to be
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In order to have communism, you need the government to be invested in every matter be it personal or not. Communism would solve problems like the class system and would make everyone the same. Communism was meant to dismantle the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie". We infer this because of the statement “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” (Communist