Dialectical Journal Michael Chang The Communist Manifesto

Dialectical Journal Michael Chang The Communist Manifesto by. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Text Date Response The Manifesto begins with Marx quoting, the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Marx describes these classes as two entities; The bourgeoisie as the rich capitalists, and the proletariats, who were the working class. In societies of past, the oppressor and oppressed are in constant opposition to each other. This fight can be obvious or sublime. However, every time the conflict ends in either a revolutionary reconstruction of society or common ruin. While the bourgeoisie had originally served the nobility/monarchy, but they eventually dominated Europe. With this political empowerment came the destruction of the social principles on which previous societies were based. The proletariat are the commodity of bourgeois enterprise, a class of laborers who live only so long as they can find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital. As with any other commodity, businesses want to minimize their cost of production; in this case, the wage that must be paid in order to make use of the worker s labor power. As slaves to their bourgeois masters, the proletariats hate the bourgeoisie. This hatred leads to the mass mobilization helped by ever improving communication and technologies. Eventually, the proletariat erupt into rebellion, casting off the shackles which bound them to the bourgeoisie. TheyShow MoreRelatedContemporary Issues in Management Accounting211377 Words   |  846 PagesServices, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Antony Rowe Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire ISBN 0–19–928335–4 978–0–19–928335–4 ISBN 0–19–928336–2 (Pbk.) 978–0–19–928336–1 (Pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 3 FOREWORD ‘ Michael Bromwich is an exemplar of all that is good about the British tradition of academic accounting. Serious in intent, he has striven both to illuminate practice and to provide ways of improving it. Although always appealing to his economic understandings