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November 4, 2010Marx: Unpacking the Communist ManifestoEnglish 102Communism; What’s Happening in the Real“In a bourgeois society…the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.” (485)Karl Marx embedded this quote in his piece Manifesto of the Communist Party to logically expose the Bourgeois society and its fundamental base on the past in contrast to the Communist society ands its dependence on the present and no fluctuation. Marx then proceeds to criticize the Bourgeois in how capital is made to define a person’s worth creating an alienated relationship for society, rendering thatthe Bourgeois are powerful due to an imaginary stance rather than to a Communist society, where this flawed perception is eliminated leaving the Bourgeois immobilized in the real.In the first half of the quote Marx states, “In a bourgeois society…the past dominates the present,” implying that in a Bourgeois society the past helps create the present, and that lessons rooted from the past enable the current society Thebourgeois is only flourishing due to the passing down of wealth from generation to generation; from the past to the present. On the contrary, Marx states, “In a Communist society, the present dominates the past,” proposing that the present reveals the functionality of a society, in that there is no fluctuation within society. The rest of the quote “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” implying that communism eliminates the alienation that comes with capital. Communism developed by Marx, revolves around the equalization of a society in that he suggests that people should not be forced to work for someone andthat there are other ways to live and survive. He believes that within communism, stripping away private ownership of property from a society would render everyoneas an equal, eliminating this “Alienation” of labor. Marx discusses how a labor worker essentially draws further and further away from the product they are producing with the labor not being voluntary but forced. Each worker only feels “human” when doing these “animal” functions such as “eating, drinking, procreating etc.” This being Marx’s general argument against Capital in how a capitalist bourgeois society realizes the only way to survive involves working usually for someone else, separating the worker from the product he is producing for the world,leading to a weaker product. The worker is therefore dependent on one’s boss and isgiven a wage in return for the worker’s labor, which is minimal for survival. Thisrepeating cycle is infinite in time. In Communism Marx wishes to eliminate the worker vs. boss bond, and reinforce cooperation between the two positions, making them humanly equal. He wishes to abolish this competition and produce a shared production between a society and community.In an essence, within the bourgeois society one maybe seen as an individual but is not independent in that one depends on the product of labor in which one creates ones worth. The bourgeois is eventually the ones withholding all the power creating this flawed perception. Marx wishes to eliminate “individualism” while exposing this fallacious power to the bourgeois in how in the real the bourgeois is non-existent, and have everyone exist equally. The fact that being an individual in a bourgeois society is thought to be ironic because within that society, capital is an individual creating this unified individualism if you will, that leaves the worker no independence of their own but fixed to their product of labor. This is wrong to Marx in that private property and capital render more power than the actual person enduring this labor. The society functions in that the worker depends on capital rather than a society being equal as in a Communist society. The bourgeois society doesn’t change this problem, it only aids it, proceeding from the past, rather than taking from the present to form a better society, in Marx opinion.Many critics would find this task that Marx wishes to enforce impossible, but in termination of impossible the arbitrary for possible is produced.The cycle in which the bourgeois is successful is settled in the imagination of the people, and that the bourgeois is truly non-existence in the real. In order for this to stand true the people of a society need to become aware of this false interpretation of the bourgeois being powerful, because in that illusion is where the bourgeois obtains power. In the real, everyone is supposed to be equal and proceed onwards with Marx’s idea of Communism. Without the flawed perception of the bourgeois, they ultimately lose respect, allowing for the capital alienation and individualism to eventually fade, bringing about a leveling value to the society as a whole. Marx believes in order for a society to function, they mustn’t fluctuate and be based on thepast but rather be in the present, making everyone unified. Marx believed that in a real, the bourgeois truly had nothing, in that the Communist society provided a unified equal civilization, that eliminated alienation of a worker to its labor, that prolonged the succession of a society, and ridthe bourgeois of any power. The flawed perception that a capital bourgeois society was fundamentally crucial, would be torn down and replaced with Marx’s communism, and it’s logically adherence to expose what the real actually


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