POLI 4064 Chapter : Karl Marx
Document Summary
This excerpt from the communist manifesto highlights the formation of the. Whenever industrial production came into existence it was controlled by closed guilds and eventually new innovators rose from the middle class who then took over and became the modern. Bourgeois and the proletarian and explains their struggle in modern society. The term bourgeois originates from the word burgesses and encapsulates the ruling class in today"s society. The proletarian are the subservient or oppressed class. Marx explains that the bourgeois are the result of previous class struggles. This competition eventually led to the proletarian who compete with one another in order to raise their status. The bourgeois use this competition to fuel their own positions even higher thus always staying ahead of the proletarian . Marx states that this will eventually fail because it will lead to the proletarian organizing and eventually taking over the bourgeois .
