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Karl Marx


Alienation only makes the bourgeois become more powerful and through their ideology of false-consciousness they keep the workers from revolting by leading them to believe that the bourgeois in fact are good and only want the best for the workers. .
             Marx denounced religion and created what were thought to be radical ideas, which resulted in the banishment from his native land of Germany and then France, eventually ending up in England. (Compton's Encyclopedia, 121) Amoung these ideas was his idea of private property. Marx believed the abolition of private property would be achieved by ridding the bourgeoisie's ownership of lands, and allowing them to be publicized. This would enable the removal of selfish individualism which splits society into segregated portions, and allow the rich and poor to become more economically equal in status. Marx states that the faster industry progresses, the weaker the proletarian becomes. Eventually storming the top of the social pyramid in order to reconstruct and overthrow the bourgeois assembly. This revolt would take place as a result of the demands of the labourers not being met, and wages not increasing with the increase of profit. The proletarian would feel worthless, and with nothing to lose, revolt against their employers, breaking the "chains" and becoming free. This, as well as other ideals, is detailed in The Communist Manifesto.
             The Communist Manifesto was Karl Marx's best-known work. The Communist Manifesto was intended to be a book easy to read and understand by the working class. Karl Marx believed that if everyone understood what the bourgeoisie was doing in order to exploit the worker, the proletariat would unite and stage a revolution against the bourgeoisie. The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848, just before practically all of Europe became engulfed in revolution. Europe did not go through the revolution because of The Communist Manifesto.


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