f your class" (Marx 37). With this in mind, some perspective on the society of that
             During Marx's time the industrial revolution was taking place. There was a massive
             movement away from small farms, businesses operated out of homes, and small shops on the
             corner. Instead, machines were mass-producing products in giant factories, with underpaid
             workers. No longer did people need to have individual skills. It was only necessary that they could
             keep the machines going, and do small, repetitive work. The lower working class could no longer
             search for a tolerable existence in their own pursuits. They were lowered to working inhumane
             hours in these factories. This widened the rift between the upper and lower class-called
             bourgeois and proletariat, respectively-until they were essentially two different worlds. The
             bourgeois, a tiny portion of the population, has the majority of the wealth.
             Meanwhile the proletariat, the huge majority, has nothing. It is with this background that
             Marx begins. The flaws with the "current" system in respect to the bourgeois and proletariat will
             be shown, thereby revealing the problems in the relationship between individual and society.
             Secondly, the way that communism addresses these issues, and the rights of the individual, as
             seen through the manifesto. Quite clearly, Marx is concerned with the organization of society.
             He sees that the majority of society, that is, the proletariat, exist in sub-human conditions.
             Marx also sees that the bourgeoisie has a disproportionate abundance of property and power,
             and that because of what they are, they abuse it. He writes of how the current situation with
             the bourgeoisie and proletariat developed. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the
             history of class struggles" (Marx 41). There have always been struggles between two classes, an
             upper and lower class. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two g...