Communism has been given the definition of classless political system the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all its members.
the text opens with the statement that the spectre of communism is haunting all of Europe.it says how communism is already recognised by all European powers to be a power in itself.
The first paragraph exemplifies many historical power struggles. examples of freeman and slave, lord and surf and oppresser and oppressed are given. the thought that the modern bourgeois society has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with the class system. this was true in 1848; i believe that still we have many unfair class systems and stereotypes which shape our society into the divisions it is at the moment.
By bourgeoisie it is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. Proletariat is the class of modern wage labourers, who having no means of production of their own, are forced to sell their labour in order to live.
it is said in the text that the modern bourgeoisie is itself a product of a long course of development, a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. the more efficient the modes of production become the greater amount of product is available to be sold to increase their capital. there is a constant reliance on revolution of products and industry. it is submitted that there is need for international links and connections everywhere for a successful business. i believe this still to be true. the most prolific city people and companies are internationally recognised for their constant push forwards in development.
Marx believed that eventually the lower classes will gain enough power to override the higher and seemingly more powerful. he explains that because the rich constantly exploit the poor they will eventually revolt with riots and unions with great strength.
The main points of the communist form are outlined. it specifies that they have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. The communists are distingusihed from the other working class parties by this only: 1, in the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of nationality. 2, in the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie had to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
they consider relationships and compare the social reasoning of of home schooling to social schooling, the relationship between husband and wife is looked at in a negative manner. it is said that men of the bourgeoisie see their wives as mealy an instrument of production. this is a cold view which i do sometimes think may be the case with today's business men. they must be cold hearted in order to carry out a successful deal sometimes yet they will generally do it for the good interest if his family.
i think the 10 point program of Communism proposed in the text shows a decent way of looking at the world but i do not think that a truly communist way of ruling a society will be for the best. if all wealth is shared and no one person can become better than the rest then the hunger to do better and better yourself will deteriorate vastly. In addition if there was no one person with a greater power then it may be thought that all would live in peace but if one was to murder for example it would be easy for another to then murder as they see it as they have the same power to do the same action.
therefore i believe that the current system of power and wealth being your own is the best way to run an ever growing and increasing population.
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I like your description of communism (first paragraph), the idea that the wealth of a community belongs to no one and everyone at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI think that Marx gives examples of the oppressor and the oppressed in history, for example the lord and the surf, because he studied Hegel. Hegel saw man as the historical creature, one that looks at the past to predict the future. Just in the opening of the Communist Manifesto Marx does both; predicting the 'spectre' looming over Europe in consideraton of past historical class struggle.
You say that you still think that there is class division in our modern society, this is interesting, can you give some examples? Also, do you think communism would work in Britain? How would you personally feel about it?
I think it is interesting to consider the difference between a peasant and a proloteriat, initially I saw them as the same thing. Peasants in Feudal society, no matter how poor still had a place in the pecking order of things. Also being very religious; the idea that Jesus is Lord of all and that there is another heavenly kingdom and that everyone has a place and a sense of self worth. Proloteriats of the 19th century essentially didnt think like this and therefore had nothing to lose but their chains, making them the nmost revolutionary group of people at the time.
My father is a businessman, and I wouldn't say that he or his colleaugues treat their wives as instruments of production. Yet I do see your point that some men devote all their time and enery at work, to bless their family, whilst actually hurting them by never being an active part of the family?
Jenni :)
i didn't mean to insult the businessman as many of my close family are part of businesses if not have their own to take care of. It was simply the idea that they can separate the feelings from their logical mids very easily when need be.
ReplyDeletei dont think communism would work in Britan. I beleive the reason that our countyr has deveolped at the rate and it has and has enjoyed such wealth is because people strive for it. if all wealth was shared then nobody would feel the need to better themselves.
I also see the social divisions in many circumstances. London being a very rich city also has some of the most poverty stricken families living in it. communism is not a way to solve this. it should eb a way to resolve it. the poor should want to help themselves, they are helped in many ways with free health care, schooling and benifits available. its up to them how they use the oppertunites given.i find this kind of discusion about wealth and the welfare state great!! thanks :)