PHILOS 2G03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Engels: Wage Labour, The Communist Manifesto, Class Conflict
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Readings 3 marx and engels the communist manifesto (marxism) The history of all existing society is the history of class struggle: freeman vs. slave, lord vs serf, oppressor vs. oppressed. This class struggle has always been existing: always ending in fights that each time ended in either a revolutionary reconstitution or the common ruin of contending classes. In almost every aspect of history, we find an arrangement of society into various rankings. Modern industry has established the world market: this market has given development to business and extension of the industry and. The bourgeoisie, through their means of communication, draws all nations into civilization: their cheap priced commodities forces all nations to adopt bourgeois mode of production. Proletarians: modern working class, a class of laborers who live by working, these laborers are like a commodity and are consequently exposed to all the fluctuations of the market.