An Analytical View of the Rhetoric of the Communist Manifest

Marx starts out by introducing several of the key ideas of his theory. One of his main ideas is that all of history until now is the story of a series of class struggles. He examines the struggles in ancient Rome between the patricians, knights’ plebeians and slaves, then the struggles of lords’ vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices and serfs in the middle ages. He ends with the current class divisions of the bourgeoisie society. The most important concept that he touches on is that each society has a characteristic economic structure. This structure tends to breed different classes that are in conflict as they oppress or are oppressed by each other. However Marx also states that the situation is never permanent. As time goes

Later on in the manifesto Marx begins to analyze the effect of religion on society. He claims that the ides of religion and philosophy are actually rooted in people's material existence and that they are only results of relationships of production. The most prevailing and enduring ideas are simply those that serve the interests of the ruling class. Thus the ruling class makes the rules that structure society and supports those ideas that forward its own end. Marx then begins to convey a sense of his view of the revolution using the manifesto. He pictures the workers becoming the rulers and working to eliminate private property. Another interesting observation in the communist manifesto is the way Marx responds to the critics of communism. He is harsh and often sarcastic about it. This approach is somewhat ineffective. He could have been more convincing if he took a more serious tone in response to critics. But if his tone was changed the manifesto might lose some of its revolutionary character.

In conclusion it is safe to say that Marx believes with all his heart in the ideal of communism and wishes to see it implemented in modern society. He uses this document to convey his views of modern society and criticize the current governments. He was also effective in that he wrote in a mann

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