Capitalism and Proletariat

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CAPITALISM AND PROLETARIAT
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1CAPITALISM AND PROLETARIAT
The aim of this essay is to discuss the focus of Marx and Engels’ in their book The
Communist Manifesto, to analyze the issues of corruptions of capitalism and their effects on the
lower section of the society. The Communist Manifesto is the wider read as well as most
influential political documents in the history of economy and political science. This main focuses
on the relation between the bourgeois capitalists and the result of the social class. This book
deals with the spread of industrial revolution along with capitalist modernity. Analysis of Marx
is quite complex as this includes the theories regarding the evils of capitalism as well as their
resolution. The irrationality, inefficiency and unpredictability of capitalism has affected the
socio-economic setting, socio political and administrative system of the countries and affect the
regulation as well as policy making structure completely. This essay will be capturing the
argument that the book by Karl Marx and Engels to be more focused on the capitalism
corruptions more than detailing just the types of work the proletariat have to do.
The main themes of The Communist Manifesto, include the issues of bourgeois,
proletarian revolution and class straggle. These are also relayed to the variants of socialism as
well as the measures that the proletarians or the Marxists need to seek for achieving their
revolution or after it. According to Lamb (2015) Marx believed that capitalism has a far-reaching
effect on the society but this will be collapsed which is the feature of historical materialism of
Marx. It was principally informed by the sort of economic materialism. Marx in The Communist
Manifesto, has detailed the reasons of his detest of capitalism and recorded countless features of
the capitalism which has given birth of the concepts of alienation and exploration. As mentioned
before, the corruption so capitalism has covered much place in the book which gradually leads to
exploitation of the labor class.

2CAPITALISM AND PROLETARIAT
Exploitation according to Marx and Engels (2005) is the process that the bourgeois use to
force their labors to sell their labor power of these capitalists for lesser than it is worth. It
happens as effect of the living labor of the workers producing the surplus values for these
capitalists and the labors are paid disproportionately lower wages. It is one of the features of
capitalism as through exploitation, the act of procuring the profit in the accumulated labor is
made possible for purchasing the living labor. The authors of this book, have therefore, blamed
the social setting which takes place in any system irrespective of geographic diversity. In the
Communist Manifesto, Marx has connected capitalist exploitation with the class exploitation that
is reinforced by the already existing conditions of this capitalist system of the society. This
problem of exploitation creates a devil’s cycle that forces the proletariats to survive only to be
exploited in the class scale. Exploitation of the proletariat has been connected to the alienation
effect as the authors point out latter to be the result of the former.
As mentioned in the Communist Manifesto, the capitalist system the labors are treated
like machine. Just as the capitalist’s profit from the machines and pay only for the raw materials,
they do the same for the human labors also (Marx & Engels, 2005). In addition to exploitation
and alienation, another evil feature of the capitalist society has been pointed out by Marx. To
Lamb, (2015), the concept of controlling the meaning by the bourgeoisie is the feature that
makes law for all and states that the essential characters or directions are determined by
economic conditions of the existence. For Marxists, the humanity of the labors is also determined
by the bourgeoise that does not match with the actual existence of the labors. Their humanity is
seen as the factor of production. This is where Marx has referred to the third type of alienation
which refers to the alienation from the notion of humanity. As pointed out in the Communist
Manifesto, the proletarians in the capitalist social setting has no individuality but they are the