Analytical_Book_Review_Of_The_Communist_Manifesto

Analytical Book Review Of The Communist Manifesto Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto International Publishers, New York I. Marx begins the Communist Manifesto with his famous generalization that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (9). He distinguishes these classes in terms of two parties, one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. In history human societies have mainly been organized according to complex class hierarchies consisting of many members. The demise of feudalism in response to the French Revolution brought on a simplification of class antagonism, dividing society into only two classes: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. A long historical process is the result of the affairs occurring at this time. At the discovery of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries new methods of production and exchange were required in order to move forward. There was a demand for more efficient, larger scale production, and the medieval guild system was replaced by new methods of manufacturing. As industrialization occurred it was the Bourgeoisie (Capitalists) who were leaders in economic revolutions. As the Bourgeoisie gained economic power they also gained political power. In the middle of the 19th century they had come to control the representative states of Europe. In the book Marx communist, manifesto, marx, bourgeoisie, class, proletariat, history, order, labor, capitalism, wage, production, power, historical, economic, thought, society, new, laborer, end, communism, world, work, theories, states, result, property, lancashire, human, however, change, believed, worker’s, theory, subject, stages