Communism

         In Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels book the Communist Manifesto, they published their opinions about the struggles between classes, the capitalist system, and the rise of the workers' power. As far as class system goes, the duo say, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the class struggles" (Engels & Marx 1). They argue that throughout all of time whether it be the freeman and the slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman all of these relationships simplify to being the oppressor and the oppressed. In the present day capitalist society, this relationship is shown by the proletariat facing the bourgeoisie. "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of old ones" (Engels & Marx 1). The bourgeoisie is successful at maintaining superiority over the proletariat because of wage-labor. This means that the laborers bring some of the separation on themselves because, "wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association" (Engels & Marx 3).
          This influences the rise of the proletariat. The proletariat will eventually rise to power due to the bourgeoisie's exploitation of the workers. A revolution will occur, but capitalism will still survive and the bourgeoisie will rise to power once again. The key to class equality in this society is capitalism, according to Marx and Engels.


Question: Americans hide from capitalism. Why is the common opinion so different in America compared to Germany?