There are many differences between the bourgeois and the proletarian as Karl Marx describe them in the communist manifesto. Fist if we look at the definition used in the book in the foot note of page 357. Basically Marx defined or meant by the bourgeois as the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. In other words the rich people who control the wealth of the nations. The bourgeois has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation (Marx 357). Marx believed that the bourgeois use the poor people to do the hard work and get less benefit. From that Marx meant by the bourgeois are the people with higher income or people who run businesses and use labor. Furthermore the read can conclude that Marx was attacking the entire system of capitalism, because he nervy mentioned anything good about the capitalism. On the other hand proletarian was defined as the class of modern wage laborers who having no means of productions of their own are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. They are the weak but the majority of the people who can change anything. Also they work as machines to have a living. as well they do not have any involvement in forming the government or the it is ran. In essence they are the weakest in the society for one reason because they are poor. But I think that not the case for the must parts.
Marx, Karl. "The Communist Manifesto." A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Trans. Samuel Moore. 7th ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006. pp353-379.
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I do agreethat Marx does set out the ideas of capitalism. He describes capitalism which was a growth of "feudalism" where society existed where few people owned land. S oyou did set out inportant facts about the proletariant and the bourgeois.
you seemed to have understood the reading well, you explain what Marx's wrote very well. good job
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