Discussion Of Communism In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

One major point that Marx was a firm believer of was the ridding of classes, he believed that the ideal society is one where everyone is equal and class does not exist. He puts capitalism down for have major wage gaps and having people at the very top of the ladder while there are people that can’t even make it onto the ladder. He makes this point by stating that, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx 79). Marx believed that capitalism should be replaced by communism where everyone can be equal and the working class isn’t exploited while the upper class enjoys luxuries. He was a strong fighter for the proletariat (the working class) to take over power and politics, he was against the bourgeois (the upper class) who had all the money and power at the expense of the proletariat. He also envisioned that, under a communist society, there would be no fights and arguments because the government and the people would be working as a whole to benefit the entire society since there are no classes and everyone is equal. He

Communism today has a bad name but when reading the Communist Manifesto, it really seemed like Marx was fighting for the greater good which is definitely not the vibe that communism gives off nowadays. Today’s existing communist countries include: China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. China runs on a communist government but their economy is capitalistic meaning that the exploitation that Marx criticized is still going strong. Some people are working way harder than others and still not getting nearly the same amount back. China is a government that focuses largely on growth and production, they are one of today’s fasting growing economies and they can only achieve this through exploitation. If China ran on the government Marx identified with, the country would have little to no growth but there would be way less class