Division Between Social Classes: Karl Marx And Frederick Engels

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels did an amazing job in displaying the issues of the separation of classes and the history of the modern working class movement. In chapter one Marx poses the idea that “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (9). This statement is basically explaining the division between our social classes. There is the rich, there is the poor, there are those who are in control of the power, and there are those who are subjugated. The clashes as well as the conflicts between these classes have inherently shaped the foundation of our history. This cycle, though not recognized by many people is still present in our government today. Throughout the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels continuously

We usually consider minorities to be generally subjugated people or people of little power in our modern context but that is precisely the opposite of what Marx is trying to say. Marx is talking about the idea of movements of minorities to serve minorities, for example some sort of kingdom, royal family, or a dictatorship. Any of these circumstances, are basically one of which you have a minority group of people who are trying to control things and take over the majority. Marx in this case is more in favor of the majority rule that follows through the control of the proletariats. It is proven through out history that our classes will never be equal. At the rate that our debt wages and successes are rapidly rising, come the next generation, many people believe that the likelihood of a middle class still existing is

In doing so they explain that this so called “capitalist continued production”, ends up resulting in us wanting and needing things that maybe we didn’t even know existed. When there is globalization people begin to develop desires and wants for things that before, wouldn’t have been an option. For example, someone who lives in the northern United States region may one day develop the desire to eat oranges, where as before globalization they wouldn’t have been able to have an orange because their production is centralized in the south. With globalization, even nations that are not as entirely civilized according to the western paradigm of expectation, have to do what the capitalists want in order to move forward. Now of days we have a more developed process of integration among our government and other nations, through a process of international trade and investments. Although our nation has advanced in many areas, these issues are just as applicable today as they were in