Chapter Summary: The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

There are the rich and there are the ones who are not rich: the ones who are in control, and the ones who are subjugated. According to Karl Marx, the “history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” The clashes and conflicts between these people have shaped all of history. Capitalism, the bourgeois v proletarian interest, has set up a situation in which free trade is the only freedom that we have and that freedom, in other regards, are not as important. In the first chapter of the Communist Manifesto, “in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade.” There is a class out there that are all about free trade in the markets, yet, they have hesitation about people having other sorts of freedoms such as the freedom to marry who they please, the freedom to do the drugs that they want, or the freedom to have firearms. The capitalist perspective of free trade having primacy overlaps the interests of individuals. The capitalist continued production ends up resulting in us wanting and needing things that we did not even know existed before. In chapter one, “[i]n place of the old wants, satisfied by the production
However, Marx sees the idea of movement of minorities to serve minorities being a royal family. In chapter one, “[a]ll previous historical movements were movements of minorities or in the interest of minorities”. This small amount of people or kingdom or dictator, a minority group of people who are trying to control things and take things over, over the majority. Marx proposes that the proletarian movement is the “self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority”. Marx is in favor of the majority rule when the proletariat is in control. When anyone who does not own a corporation, anyone who is not like a wealthy business owner, this is the majority that should have