Marx's Perspective on Class Struggles under Capitalism

Lauren O’ Shea

2BA

13533203 Sociology and political studies assignment.

What the bourgeoisie...produces…is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable’. Consider this statement with reference to the pattern of class struggle that Marx sees appearing under capitalism

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. The Communist Manifesto is Karl Marx most powerful piece of literature. This historical document illustrates Marx ideology of class struggles in late 1800’s. Marx charts the journey of this communist era evolving in Europe. Class struggles are created by means of production. Conflicting classes hold separate concepts about how society should be administered.

This society has established new classes, new oppression and new forms of class struggles among the proletarians. This in turn has split the society into two ranks of social struggles the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. “It is high time that communists should openly punish their arms Capitalism was the sole element involved in the make of the bourgeoisie society. This was a profit driven system that was binding to expand. This was manifested by the global market of labour, evidently expanding by new means of technology. They also created colossal cities which greatly increased the population. This led a conflict between the distribution of goods and capacity to produce goods. The idea of centralization of production was a key element in the spreading of capitalism. This also caused political centralization. A communist regime based on separate laws, governments and taxation. Each development of the bourgeoisie has been conducted by a corresponding political advance in that class. Nonetheless, all of these would be interlinked to one government in control of all productivity. The bourgeoisie have contributed to the prevention of physical labour to machinery based labour. “A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control powers of the nether world which he

Ironically, they only find work as long as their labour increases capital. This class of workers are characterised as a commodity. They are solely justified for one purpose only, which is to provide labour for the expansion of capitalism. The work of the proletarian has lost all individual attributes. The cost of the workman has reduced by the use of modern technology in the bourgeoisie society. The work force are exploited in there trade by low wages and long working hours. The growing competition among the bourgeoisie made the wages of the worker even more unreliable. Small workshops turn into capitalist industrial factories. The shopkeepers, the small tradesmen, the handicraftsmen, are all present in the makeup of the proletarian class. Huge volumes of exploited workers crowded into industrial factories working in a profit originated society. They are slaves of the capitalist era, under control of the bourgeoisie and the state. They seek to restore the value of the work man to a non-capitalist society. The bourgeoisie are classified as the hierarchy of society; meanwhile the proletarians are regarded as the lowest rank in society. The revolution in which Marx has said will happen start to unfold. The proletarian direct their actions not against the bourgeoisie conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves. They destroy imported ware which competes with