Comparing The Communist Manifesto: A Worker's Call To Arms
The Communist Manifesto: A Worker's Call to Arms
Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto to hopefully give some kind of guidance to his fellow workers or proletarians. It was to offer education as to their exploitation as a worker in a capitalistic society and the means to change it. When this was written it shook the social and economic worlds. It did so probably because their was some truth in what he wrote and dared to bring to light.
Communism was the end result of Marx's beliefs. That you were a Marxist if you agreed with what he said and communism was what you all worked to achieve. He believed in the uniting of the working class or proletariat as a whole and that their immediate goals were "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat." (Marx 66) to achieve these …show more content…
The few bourgeois control most of the wealth or capital in the current society while the many proletariat are exploited and driven into further poverty by those few in the upper class. Marx said to further advance communism and rectify this problem you must do away with minimum wage, or the "quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer." (Marx 68) If there is always minimum wage, it offers no real chance for the proletariat to get out of his poverty. Also, he will continually be manipulated by the bourgeois for the advancement of themselves. It is argued by the bourgeois that doing this will do away with individuality and freedom, but when they use the terms "individuality and freedom," they mean "bourgeois freedom and individuality." Marx agrees that to achieve real freedom you must do away with these existing
Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto to hopefully give some kind of guidance to his fellow workers or proletarians. It was to offer education as to their exploitation as a worker in a capitalistic society and the means to change it. When this was written it shook the social and economic worlds. It did so probably because their was some truth in what he wrote and dared to bring to light.
Communism was the end result of Marx's beliefs. That you were a Marxist if you agreed with what he said and communism was what you all worked to achieve. He believed in the uniting of the working class or proletariat as a whole and that their immediate goals were "formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat." (Marx 66) to achieve these …show more content…
The few bourgeois control most of the wealth or capital in the current society while the many proletariat are exploited and driven into further poverty by those few in the upper class. Marx said to further advance communism and rectify this problem you must do away with minimum wage, or the "quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer." (Marx 68) If there is always minimum wage, it offers no real chance for the proletariat to get out of his poverty. Also, he will continually be manipulated by the bourgeois for the advancement of themselves. It is argued by the bourgeois that doing this will do away with individuality and freedom, but when they use the terms "individuality and freedom," they mean "bourgeois freedom and individuality." Marx agrees that to achieve real freedom you must do away with these existing