Compare Marxism And How Did The Bourgeoisie

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1. The Manifesto of the Communist Party is well known for its revolutionary zeal, but we often think of the proletariat as the revolutionary force. However, Marx and Engels suggest that the bourgeoisie also came about through revolution. In your own words, explain how the “bourgeoisie played a most revolutionary part.”
a. The bourgeoisie are particularly important because not only did they modernized society but industrialized it as well. They took revered occupations and turned them into paid wage-labor, for example being a physician or poet. Marx’s view on the bourgeoisie is that they emerged after numerous revolutions involving modes of production as well as exchange. They create the world according to their image, which strips society …show more content…

In one of the most eloquent passages of the Manifesto, Marx and Engels write: “But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.” What “weapons” are Marx and Engels talking about, and how did the bourgeoisie “call into existence” the proletariat?
a. The weapons that the bourgeoisie used to overcome feudalism are now going to turn against them and be their undoing. At some point there is too much of everything (civilization, industry), begins to endanger the society the bourgeoisie has created. As the bourgeoisies capital grows and develops so does the development of the working class, or proletariats. As the clashes between the different classes the bourgeoisie, Marx says, will appeal for help from the proletariat thus advancing their general education as well as political filling their weapon arsenals against the ruling class of society.

3. Marx and Engels suggest that as capitalism has developed, the bourgeoisie has sown the seeds of its own destruction. Yet, many critics point to the undeniable fact that capitalism still exists and communism has struggled to survive. Where do you fall? Do you find Marx and Engels’s argument

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