Marx And Engels In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany. Marx received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Berlin, where most of the influence on academics came from Hegel and the “Young Hegelians”. This was a coincidence since Marx completely disagreed and did not accept Hegel’s philosophic point of view on utopian communists. However, this did drive Marx to develop his own perspective on his later work. When Marx moved to Paris, he met Friedrich Engels, who gave him a new perspective on the working class and the conceptions of socialism. I think their relationship was important because it allowed for Marx to be driven and develop a sense of his beliefs that were later influential to sociology and society. Some of Marx’s early works were unpublished and went unnoticed during the time he was alive, but there was one work that Marx and Engels worked on together that made an impact on society—this work was called the Communist Manifesto. This was written in 1848 and aimed to acknowledge the rising of Communism in Europe, and how it was going to replace the existing capitalist society.

The basis of his beliefs was that human beings struggled with the power existing in society. From his point of view, he saw a capitalist society as being divided into two groups—people who have access to resources and people who do not. The people with access to these resources are known as bourgeoisie, and the other group is called the proletariats, or the working class. The bourgeoisie, defined by Marx are those who have a “means of production”. With the means of production, the bourgeoisie have all the power and money that they need to produce materials for sale and consumption. In order to produce, the bourgeoisie used their control over resources to build new factories, and