Tucker, The Marx-Engles Reader

Marxist society

While the Manifesto of the Communist Party on pages 469-500 provided us with the historical emergence of the bourgeoisie and proletarian class and their certain collision , the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 gave us a vivid understanding of what was the cause of the contradiction between social classes , the hostility within the mode of production - that is the accumulation of private property . It is quite interesting for me to know what labor ' has caused and therefore , what I , as a man possessing an ability to put forth labor , am

capable of doing . It also came to my realization though , that for centuries working men are bound by the shackles of wage labor

On his Theses on Feuerbach , from pages 143 to 145 , Karl Marx said something about men which I think is agreeable . He said that men are neither products nor they can be changed into what they are by the circumstances or upbringing ' but it is human activity that creates the circumstances where human conditions persist . So it can be derived that men are not governed by destiny of pre-supposed existence of metaphysical proportions , rather , the world we have right now is a world men has created . It makes me realize then that wars , famines , poverty and even global warming are the circumstances that human activity has created and the persisting conditions humanity has to face

Though Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels did not live to see Russia become the first socialist country in 1917 , followed by other East European South American , African and Asian states , the world has truly had philosophers that did not only try to interpret the world but went directly to the point of changing it . True that they may have been grave errors committed by most of the socialist regimes but...