SOCA02H3 Chapter : MSL Reading #41 -- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Document Summary
Marx and engels foresaw the ride of global capitalism. The arrangement of society takes on various orders (gradation), for example, in ancient rome there were patricians, knights, plebeians, and slaves. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great classes: Bourgeoisie: marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class that owns the means of production in a capitalist society. Modern industry, the place of industrial middle, established the world-market for which america paved the way. The market has given an immense development to commerce, navigation, and communication by land, then to the extension of railways and increased capital. As a result, the bourgeoisie developed and thrived while all the remaining classes were pushed aside, along with old-fashioned industries and modes of production. The modern bourgeoisie is the product of a long course of development including a series of revolutions that would result in the betterment of production and of exchange.
