Communist Manifesto All that is solid melts into air
In the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 27 A-B, the people are given the traditional release of one prisoner. They have a choice, the just man Jesus Christ and the "notable" prisoner Barabbas. When asked which prisoner should be released the people responded, "Barabbas." (convinced by the chief priests and elders.) Pontius Pilate asks what punishment he should be given. "They all responded: Let him be crucified." Disturbed by the obvious injustice, Pilate feebly asks, "What evil hath he done?" The people rise in blind, tumultuous cries, "Let him be crucified!" Again, Pilate appeals to them by washing his hands before the people and saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person." The impassioned crowd, the tumult rising, calls the accountability upon themselves, "His blood be on us, and on our children!" Bach captures the horrific nature of this event exquisitely in "The St. Matthew Passion." The chorus explodes into rising human voices, violently one upon the other, in a terrifying spectacle of mob mentality. The listener is disturbed; the wrongness of it frightens and saddens him. This is an example of a mass human sentiment. It is undeniably immoral and frightening in its intensity. The people
At one point man considered feudalism to be natural, that he had 'natural superiors. Marx claims that the idea of property under capitalism is wrong because it is only in existence for a tenth of the population; law, morality, family, culture, nationality, etc. Man seeks to protect his individual natural rights to exist as himself. The middle class, the petty bourgeois is gradually subsumed into the proletariat; some of the bourgeois, taken over by other bourgeois or coming to the realization of history become part of the proletariat and, "the proletariat not only increase in number; it becomes concentrated is greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels its strength more. Naturally, it is possible that the things people believe under capitalism are also changeable. "(Cmp19) As the feudal relations of property became too small to support growing bourgeois, the bourgeois will be overtaken by the same forces, the ever growing productive forces become too big and powerful for the small bourgeois. The defining interest of the bourgeois is the voracious accumulation of private property. What is to insure that these united people will start and maintain a community of communal brotherhood? And why would Marx suppose that the individual human being would be satisfied with becoming communal or that it is best for him? The conflict here is the conflict of man in society. Because he sees them as bourgeois interests. 35) While Marx thinks these people are useful for education, (because they "attack every principle of existing society"(CMp. The proletariat in power, therefore must recognize this and will establish product as common property. Supposedly, when a promising solution is formulated, it is stated as a goal and worked toward. In order to exist as capitalism it must expand into new territory; new transportation and communication routes drag all societies into civilization under capitalism: nationality dissolves. " History follows its own course set into motion at some point along the way.
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