Communist Manifesto

     I don't understand why a revolution must take place in order to get rid of all classes.  If one looks at human nature, social classes are inevitable.  And why is that?  Because humans are competitive, greedy and are in dire need for power for example capital.  These are the higher class.  Others do not care as much. These are the lower class.  It's almost like Darwin's "survival of the fittest" applies here.  No, to be more specific, it dominates.  The upper class dominates because of their blindness towards capital.  Marx seemed very much aware of this conflict.

     In addition, I found it interesting that Marx points out, "Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class.  All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex."  What is this world coming to?  All this is still happening to this day.  How can children be considered "instruments of labour?"  If this is what Communism is leading to, not a single purpose under that kind of authority will ever know what the word freedom means.

     Lastly, communism although meant to be a collectivist motive actually prohibits the individual to be an individual. Communism eliminates any hope for a human to be an individual in a culture and therefore eliminating culture all together.  It's what makes an individual that makes a culture and if an individual is just like everyone else, then what is culture?  As Marx mentions, "'But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.'"  Notice the word 'morality.'  Communism spits at anything moral which is probably why all countries' people under Communism suffer.

     Overall, I truly believe that due to our human nature, there will always be social classes.  Even without knowing it, that is how societies organize themselves.  Also part of our human nature is that we are unaware of the results of the choices we make.  What happened to a world of Communism?  In addition, it's hard for many of us to understand and know first-hand what it's like to live under Communistic control.  We've seen it on TV, we've read it online.  But the consequences are beyond our control.