Marx PSA Assignment

Marx, Karl and Frederich Engels. The Communist Manifesto.  Modified from the Avalon Project.           1848. Yale    University. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mancont.asp(accessed          September 18, 2013). 

Karl Marx was a German scholar and philosopher. Marx attended University of Bonn in 1835 and University of Berlin in 1836. Karl Marx was a strong advocate of communism. Marx lived in poverty his entire life, and communism was designed with the lower-class in mind. Marx wanted to spread communism so that people did not have to suffer the cruel poverty of capitalism. At the time, capitalism was growing, but so was poverty in Europe. Communism was a plan to make all people equal in society. Marx, being a poor man, promotes communism over capitalism heavily. Marx uses the phrase, "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!" This is saying the lower class (proletarians) have nothing to lose but their "chains" This is a metaphor for slavery chains, which Marx feels what capitalism does to the lower class. He uses words like monopolized and oppression to describe what he feels capitalism brings upon society. He ends with "Working men of all countries, unite!", and that inspires the communist reader to act upon the reading.