Karl Marx Rhetorical Analysis

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels joined together to write the Communist Manifesto first published in 1848. The document states that communists should express their ideas. There is and will always be two sides who oppose each other. The classes in society, bourgeois and proletariat, are being established as new classes because there are currently new struggles and more separation. The bourgeois have created cities and benefited the wealthy with inventions of machinery and enclosing land. Today, the bourgeois struggle to control their power because it’s out of their hands. Labors still out number the wealthy throughout the countryside. This could eventually create a problem considering they are developing industry and growing in strength

and power. Industry connects and brings together the proletarians class to help them grow, while the bourgeois sit and watch what they have created, eventually destroy them. The Communists want to use this method of power change to their advantage. Once the bourgeois become weak, the communists will overthrow the government. The proletarians will agree with the communists because they want a change in social and political order just as much as they do. They are the under privileged working class and have nothing to lose, so join together to achieve a common goal.
During this time period many promoted violent overthrows of the existing governments in their writing. Another German communist during this time period, Friedrich Engels, published The Condition of the Working Class in England. It targeted the capitalists and accused them of many crimes including mass exploitation and murder. Karl Marx, four years later, wrote this document urging working men to revolt. According to both men, class struggles have always been rich verses the poor and whichever class controlled the economy, controlled everything else that came along with it. For example, politics and religion. At this time, workers in factories and urban settings became more common and the exploited class was pushed together, foreshadowing the bourgeois downfall.
During this time, people like Marx and Engels were bringing new ideas to the table that the working class had only dreamed of. Overthrowing their corrupt government, who controlled every part of their economy, seemed possible. They planted the seeds of hope, while firing up the proletariats with their writings. The Communist Manifesto fueled the courage to revolt by reminding the proletariats all that the bourgeoisie had done and how now it was a time for change.