Communist Manifesto

After reading the Communist Manifesto, I don’t think the political system in the United States mirrors that of a communist at all. We are most definitely a capitalist government as Marx very well mentions and his remarks on this type of government and society we have are very accurate. Sure enough, private companies and high competition in the states are still run by individuals rather than the government, thus, opposing his prescriptions. However, in our country we certainly have a few aspects of Socialism floating around in our system. For instance, the biggest one I can think of are the public schools we have due to the taxes that our government takes from us. But for the most part, we are quite far from having serious socialist or communist features in our political system.
If one truly studies this, they would find that there is a huge spectrum attached to the class system in the United States, classes such as working-middle to upper-middle do exist. Therefore, it wouldn’t be right to flat out categorize our society into just these two groups. Marx stated that “What the capitalist therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers” (7), which I disagree with. This is because, unfortunately, even though “Proletarians” outnumber the Capitalists, I don’t believe that they would ever be able to out rule the Capitalists. The wealth that these capitalists obtain are capable of gathering enough resources that would within themselves out number us, therefore, this unequal income distribution is something that only the government should take action on. But then again, I don’t see our country getting to a point where one group needs to turn against the