Essays on The Communist Manifesto

The Power Elite             “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat.” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party             The concept of Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills dictates that for a…

A crown, golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns. ” – John Milton, speaking on the burden of leadership. As you already know, leadership in governments can be bad as well as good. For every Abraham Lincoln there is an Doll Hitler. For every Winston Churchill there is a Bonito Mussolini. In good…

Karl Marx was born in Trier, Bruckergasse 664, on May 5, 1818. Karl was the son of a lawyer named Heinrich, and his wife Henriett. Together, Heinrich and Henriett had seven children named Sophie, Karl, Hermann, Henriette, Luise, Emilie, and Karoline. Karl lived most of his life outside Germany, primarily in London. He received a…

The Communist Manifesto discusses the political objectives of communists on behalf of the proletariat class, with the ultimate goal being the overthrow of the bourgeois by the proletariat class and the removal of private property. According to Marx, essential elements for achieving this are forming a class-conscious proletariat, overthrowing bourgeois supremacy, and gaining political power….