Bourgeois & Proletarians

In the Chapter “Bourgeois and Proletarians” in Manifesto of the Communist Party, Engles and Marx talked about the relationship between Bourgeois and Proletarians. Bourgeois is a new class which replaced the guild and the manufacturing middle class. The difference is that Bourgeois took away “all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations” from them, therefore they exploit workers more directly without any political and religious reasons. Bourgeois also practiced the exploitation in the world market, where rural people are dependent on civilized people, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois and the East on the West. As we can see, it is them who spread the segregation of wealth and poverty to the world.

The victims are Proletarians who only had values when Bourgeois had them to work. As the result of industrial revolution, there were many industrial machines. So Proletarians are only required simple works which declined their values as workers and this also brought more wealth to Bourgeois. Therefore, Proletarians had to fight with Bourgeois. It is the dissatisfaction with Bourgeois which made them united, and with the modern proletarian their numbers increased rapidly. Bourgeois was not really able to control them because they were too many. There were much more Proletarians who only could a little amount of money than Bourgeois who possessed much wealthy, and it is also true that Bourgeois industrial way made the base of strong solidarity of Proletarians.