Social Inequality In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

Karl Marx a sociologist, economist and especially a political theorist wrote The Communist Manifesto, one of the most significant pro communism manuscripts, in the year 1848. During this time period the Industrial Revolution was blooming which had created two separate classes. Marx characterizes this class difference as a form of social inequality between the Proletariats and Bourgeoisies. According to Marx these two classes arose mainly due to Industry Revolution and its blooming economic markets. In this market, a new class was introduced that took advantage of the rising economic power and they were known as Bourgeoisies. They mainly represented the upper class that not only had great economical power but political power as well. But the Bourgeoisies needed people that can manage their huge industries, hence creating a new class called Proletariats. This class mainly consisted of, “wage-laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live”. As the Bourgeoisies society exponentially grow their revenues and powers, the Proletariats work day and night just to get food on their plate. In order to end this social inequality, Marx proposes that the Proletariats will have to start a revolution.
Instead of relocating power from one Bourgeoisie to another, Marx suggests total destruction of all Bourgeoisies’ economic power such as their private properties and industries. He believes that in order to eradicate the imbalanced social class, a communistic type of revolution is required. In addition idea of capitalism should also be abolished because that is the type of economic system that Bourgeoisies thrive on. This revolution will not only diminish the gap between the classes, but it will also upgrade the economic, social and political conditions of the