Karl Marx's Manifesto Of The Communist Party

Revolution in Contemporary Society Karl Marx has been recognized as one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary society. In the “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” Marx attempts to explain his ideological concept of Communism, as well as the theory underlying his movement. Despite the fact that the Manifesto has become a very controversial work of literature, Marx’s ideas of a new economic system cannot be easily overlooked. Marx believes that the driving force of historical development has originated from class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. He illustrates the exploitation of the working class – the proletariat – are executed by the capitalist class –

On January 25th of that year, thousands of protestors crowded around Tahrir Square in Central Cairo and began an eighteen day battle to overthrow Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, dissolve parliament, and create a new constitution. Eventually the embattled president promised the people he would give the people what they had initially demanded. Thus, Mubarak resigned and power was administered to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which soon dismantled parliament, and suspended the constitution (El-Bendary … p4). As a result, many people believed that this was the beginning of a new era in which it is finally recognized that sovereignty belongs to the people. Unfortunately, the people did not predict the further corruption from the Egyptian government, which resulted in a relapse back to its unrest. Ultimately, the revolution failed because, the government did not hand over power to an elected parliament like they had promised. Instead, the desire of power proved too compelling, and instead of demolishing the government’s imperial legacy that crippled their own citizens, Egypt’s new leaders preserved many of the primitive instruments of repression and marginalization. Although the Egyptian revolution failed to change its government, it was not the only uprising in modern society that did not succeed, Americas Occupy Wall Street movement evidently failed

Firstly, Occupy Wall Street was implemented a group of activists who grew restless with the growing income inequality, corporate greed, and the global influence of dominant financial institutions (Gitlin … 3). Thus, On September 17, 2011, the group of activists decided to make Lower Manhattan its home, by occupying a previous privately owned public space called Zuccotti Park. As word spread, similar occupations was implemented across the United States and around the world. By mid-October demonstrations were underway or planned for 951 cities in 82 countries (Tedmanson 2011). Although Occupy Wall Street have raised awareness about the income inequality throughout the world, it had fail to establish a clear solution because of the lack of a prominent leader. Subsequently, true democracy was the fundamental value of the movement, which meant that people in assembly had equal votes