Comparison Of Marx And Engels 'The Communist Manifesto'

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The arguments that Marx and Engels presented in The Communist Manifesto was somewhat effective. The arguments that Marx and Eagle’s presented in The Communist Manifesto was somewhat effective. This text mainly focused on the struggles that the two social classes faced during the Industrial Revolution. The Bourgeois and Proletarians were the two different social classes in the text the Bourgeois was the middle class workers and owners and the Proletarians were labor workers. The Proletarians wanted to overthrow the Bourgeois because they wanted better working conditions, wages, and more freedom. Marx and Engels talked about how different each social class was, the capitalist system, and used certain vocabulary words to show how effective their argument was presented in The Communist Manifesto. The first section mainly focused on the two different social classes which was the Bourgeois and Proletarians. The Bourgeois was the middle class workers and they could own production. The Proletarians were labor workers and they were the lowest class …show more content…

At this time, America became a communist country with business instead of government. When business kept on growing more and there were times where they could not be torn down because they were too powerful which did not make life easy for the proletarians. In The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels state that “These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market...In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases” (Engels, 1848, p. 2). The way the companies worked, the lower class could not have an opportunity to make a change in their life to become high class because there were already people that had power to do so and made it impossible for them to even have