Blog # 10 Marx

When looking at the Bourgeois and the Proletarians through Marx’s reading the “Communist Manifesto” Marx explains that the Bourgeois and then Proletarians are in a sense society splitting up into “…two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other…”( Marx 357). It was difficult to understand the struggle that both the Bourgeois and then Proletarians had. The Bourgeois have been around for many generations and have always fought to be on top. This class will do anything to benefit their selves. The Proletarians are the lowest on the stratum of society and in senses the Bourgeois are at the top with the power to control and watch over and boss around the lower class like the Proletarians. This should not be happening, there needs to be a society that is all equal, although this is going to be hard to accomplish. Labor should be divided up equally so therefore not just the Proletarians are doing all of the work, allowing the Bourgeois to be at the top. Marx’s theory of communism is what will help to change the ways of the Bourgeois and help the Proletarians even out the rights and the ways that they have been treated. I think that there are many situations like this still in today’s society were people of lower income are being placed into lower paying jobs and I think that Marx’s theories about the communist manifesto is a good solution to this problem of the imbalances in today’s world. I enjoyed this reading it was extremely interesting and relevant to today’s society.

Marx. “The Communist Manifesto.” A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Ed. Lee A Jacobus. 7th ed. New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2006.pp 356-367.