The Communist Manifesto makes it clear that in such circumstances the proletariat class would attempt to displace the bourgeoisie and most likely succeed. Its fall and victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable” (Marx 464).
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own gravediggers. Marx states, “The development of modern industry…cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. It was Marx and Engles belief that such strife between the two drastically different classes would eventually result in a revolution by the oppressed lower class to create a society that was classless. The bourgeoisie were the people who had control over money, provided for manufactured goods, and used people for physical labor whereas the proletariat class were those who were poor and forced to provide the manual labor in order to stay alive.
According to The Communist Manifesto, “The government, like every other social institution, is produced by economic conditions, specifically by class struggles in which one class tries to dominate all other classes” (Marx 457). The cause for such a confrontation between the two classes, in the opinion of Marx, was supremacy. In the words of Marx, the power of the upper class, especially in political terms, was “merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another” (Marx 468).
It is stated in The Communist Manifesto that, “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other- bourgeoisie and proletariat” (Marx 459). Marx believed that divisions in class structure were potentially more important than other concerns, such as gender and race. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles focused largely in The Communist Manifesto about societal conflicts, namely class.
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