manifesto of the communist party by karl Marx

`Manifesto of the Communist Party ' by Karl Marx

Karl Marx developed theoretical concepts of society and its development explaining the workings of market economies and class relations . One of his main works , `Manifesto of the Communist Party , vividly describes the main concepts and strategic vision of Communism , socialism and class struggle . Karl Marx was concerned with how income was shared among the three great social classes : workers and capitalists . A major concern of nineteenth-century social thinking was to identify the nature of industrialization and to trace its social and political effects . Social

br and economic environment led to development of `Manifesto of the Communist Party . The era of Marx and the following decades were the era of Liberalism . During the years 1830 to 1930 the world was fast becoming an industrial society , yet its laws were based on an ideal of an agrarian society . During the second half of nineteenth century the world changed economically and socially

The book `Manifesto of the Communist Party ' consists of four sections Bourgeois and Proletarians , Proletarians and Communists , Socialist and Communist Literature , the Opposition parties . Each section identifies and analyzes the main concepts of new industrial and social relations and gives historical examples of these events . In this book , Marx creates the economic , social and political theory and practice , develops capitalism theory explaining the role of a class in society . What is emphasized is the market as a system of exchanges rather than as an arena of competition the persistent association of political particies and the pacification of economic relations relies on this emphasis

In the section `Bourgeois and Proletarians , Marx introduces new materialist method in contrast to idealistic one . He examines the role of labor and labor relations , explains the struggle over the division of output and wage system . According to Marx capitalism is class struggle Increasing polarization of the population divides it into two great classes , the bourgeoisie (capitalist ) and the proletariat (workers Marx states that The bourgeoisie , by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production , by the immensely facilitated means of communication , draws all , even the most barbarian , nations into civilization (Marx n .d

In this situation , classes not only are the links between levels rather tight they are unidirectional , the causal flow going from economic structure through consciousness to action . Marx portrays that over time the two great classes directly facing each other defined by how they stand to the relations of production , gradually consolidate under capitalism , absorbing other classes within them , developing class consciousness and industrial and political organizations , and in due course fight out a revolutionary conflict (Marx , n .d

Marx explains the role of the means of production ' and exchange of goods in market economy . Marx states : The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property (Marx n .d . The class struggle is explained as opposition between working class and the class of capitalists . Also , it is struggle of lower socioeconomic classes with higher socioeconomic...