The Communist Manifesto

Historically, political thought is structured to evolve and adapt to fit an evolving society. Political thought, most importantly criticism in political thinking, plays a huge role in our political society in the sense that the criticism amongst classes is a leading cause for oppression against the working class. Criticism amongst class, race and gender all have a huge effect in our society because it categorizes people based on income rather than character. This diminishes personal relationships amongst the workers and the buyers because people buying a product only care about the product itself and not who physically made it or where it physically came from. The role that criticism plays in society has contributed to oppression and exploitation …show more content…
Marx argues in The Communist Manifesto through commodity fetishism that the organization of labor is mediated through the buying and selling goods, but that it leaves out the social interaction amongst people who are making or buying the commodity itself. This critique is towards capitalism and the way our political society has created a system that leaves out social interaction in societies. The character of the human relations of aspect of the product is diminished and masked so that the capitalist and worker never interact. This draws a line between a worker and a buyer in the sense that the product is the only thing the buyer cares about, not the physical labor that was put into making it. This also separates the classes in our political …show more content…
This meaning of uncanny can relate to our political society in a way that defines it. Society is uncanny. Society is aware of everything that is happening to keep the class and political structures; however, for the people living in this society, it is something that is realized a long period overtime. Society in a sense is the only thing critiquing people and keeping them categorized. Society is the thing pulling the strings just waiting for everything to fall into place. That is, a class structure that keeps a certain class exploited, creating a working class, and keeping people unequal so that people will always be competing for more whether it is a higher status or a bigger paycheck. This ties into Marx and Nietzsche’s arguments that people are distinguished by their money/value because the uncanny represents our social structure. Freud in a way is describing the world we live in because nothing has changed about the American social structure. In colonial times, there were slave owners and slaves. Now, there are workers and buyers. The only theme that is consistent is that there is always a superior, not two equal parties. The working class will never be equal to the upper class and no one will fight this structure because it is the norm. It isn’t seen as unusual to have one person superior to another. “One

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