Communism: Marx and Engels' Solution to Class Struggle

Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is their attempt to explain the goal of communism. They explained that class struggling or when one class exploits another is a result that is motivated by historical development. Their solution to all the exploitation and class struggle is communism. Where, the proletariats rise up against the bourgeoisies. Relationship in each class is defined by their source of production. Nevertheless, they end up not being compatible with the force of production they being placed with. Then, this end up with a revolution that will occur at this point and a new class appears and becomes the ruling class. Class conflicts in the society were characterized between the proletariat and bourgeoisie.

I do with agree with some of Marx’s claims about capitalism due to I could see some substantial prove right now that it indeed happening. That is although, some of his prediction might have seem unrealistic we could also say some of his predictions have come to pass. For instance, in an article published by Rolling Stones in 2014 stating some of Marx’s critique and predications of capitalism and how his analysis is happening right now. First, the Great recession which Marx described as Capitalism chaotic nature? Marx argued that the relentless pursuit of profit will drive companies over labor their workers, producing more and more goods and depriving the workers from their wages until they can no longer purchase what they have manufactured/created. The great depression and much other economic turbulence can be linked to Marx’s term “fictitious capitalism”. We produce and produce till there is no one left to purchase the product. Just like what happened to the housing market in 2008 and we are still going in circles. Decades of inequalities made people go in debt and crashing hardly. Another Marx prediction is Imaginary appetites for instance the iPhone. Marx was concerned of how capitalism will lead consumers to concentrate high value on products and would over time lead to what he called imaginary appetite. This is what we see in the society today where we enjoy incredible luxury and yet are driven by constant need or more items to buy. Just like an iPhone, consumers tend to buy every year a different one comes out but the question here should be what is the different between the iPhone 6s you may own now and is it really different from the iPhone 6 we had last year or