Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Communist Manifesto

Pros:
1.The worker's union was a positive for the labor force.  This helped group the workers and lower class together.  This strength in numbers approach helped them greatly to get fairer rights.
2.  Wage labor is a good thing for the workers because this promoted competition among workers which eventually led to taking down of the upper class above them.
3. In a communist society the present dominates the past which is a good thing because it focuses more on the future and because of the abolition of private property no one has their own private issues to deal with from their past history of ownership for example.
4.A system of free love in communism which is a positive because it takes away previous restrictions of who you could marry in the Bourgeoisie society.


Cons:

1. The Bourgeoisie took away the individualism of people and the professions.  They made it so family was just a money and business instead of how family should be.  This is a negative clearly because no one wants the family structure to be like that.  Marx and Engels continue to say that the Bourgeoisie are always trying to change things for more money and stuff and that they are constantly changing the social relations including family structure.
2. The revolt and rebellion occasionally against the Bourgeoisie causes destruction and chaos.  When this happened it would cause state of panic and even barbarianism. This is all because of too much industry and commerce.
3.Treatment of workers is a negative that is highlighted.  When the treatment of the workers is increased the wage decreases.  This was an awful thing and was not fair for the treatment of the labor force.  People would do whatever they could to increase their profits they did not care about the safety or well being of the people making the products or services.
4. The demoralization of the lower class who works.  This is a negative because the people working were all viewed as objects to help the richer people make money regardless of their sex or age.  Those two factors did not go into their jobs at all except to think if they could still manage the machine or whatever they had to work with.  In my opinion this is a bad thing that in a way dehumanized the lower class.

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