The Communist Manifesto

The nineteen hundreds introduced some of the most crucially significant social and economic phenomena and concepts that we know of today. That era of time carried historical changes and developments that were only understood in targeted context, when magnified to the larger scale. For that, class conflict, a focal contributor of change, was called upon as one of the blaming factors for the driven revolutions that fought to end both, the oppression of the working class and the thriving of an esteemed wealthy one. “The Communist Manifesto”, a short in-depth book by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’, worked in favor of describing the historical events occurring during that era of time, through explaining and branching on the communist and …show more content…
To start with, in the first chapter, the authors begin to describe the rise and later destruction of bourgeoisie by tracing how society was structured prior to bourgeoisie, when the feudal system ruled. Consequently, the first chapter links the beginning of the colonization of the “New World” to the means and methods of production and exchanged unfolded at that time, leading the bourgeoisie to political and economic empowerment. Accordingly, the bourgeoisie class, known as the privileged class with all the means of production, exploits a new class known as the “proletariat” class, which identifies as the ruled labor force. As commodities to the bourgeoisie, the proletariats become in a continuous state of antagonism, which at some point leads to their mass mobilization, promoting a sense collective awareness that eventually turns into power; A developed state of “class consciousness”. However, while protecting their own interests, the bourgeoisie are training the proletariats in mobilizing the masses of workers, which ironically also works in favor of the proletarians’ own interests in prevailing and destroying the “classes”. Accordingly, the chapter goes on to discuss how class consciousness is then followed by mass proletarian rebellion that positions them in a place to condemn bourgeoisie laws. Proletarians then fight to demolish all forms of private ownerships, leading to the weakening of the conditions of the esteemed upper

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