Why Comunism Fails

The Communist Manifesto's purpose is two fold; first it is designed to tell the reader what communism is, by way of general information about the beliefs and purpose of communism. The second purpose is to "drum up support" or perhaps "rally the troops" might be a better term in this case. In my opinion the Manifesto fails to be clear on what exactly it wants in certain points, in some places even contradicting itself. But the reason that the manifesto fails is because human nature causes it to fail.

The Communist Manifesto has several ideas that are both intriguing and seem like they would make the world a better place, unfortunately in order to implement these ideas people would have to give up a large portion of their lives. To begin with Marx calls for the working class to throw off their shackles and rise up against the bourgeoisie and by doing this the classes will realign, the people or the proletariat will be in charge of their own destiny not relying on the bourgeoisie to set the standard anymore.

Class struggle is where Marx finds his foundation for the Manifesto "Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one anotherÐ'..." (CM 219). By talking about the history of this "struggle" Marx makes what is an opinion sound like a fact, which solidifies his foundation and allows him to build more.

It is true that there has been a hierarchy though the ages, that is how societies develop, over time they evolve, but one thing will remain true you will have leaders and you will have workers. Neither can survive without the other, but in Marx's utopia there will be no leaders only workers.

Marx spends a great deal of time ingratiating himself and his ideas to the working man, which of course is the point of the manifesto, by telling the people that he understands their plight, he proves that he has been where they are and that he can identify with them. He tells them that they are unique and that they are more powerful than they know, hoping that by doing this it will make them think that everyone else is joining up so they should too. If it were to work then the next step would be for the Proletariat to begin the revolution, to destroy personal property and make every man equal.

With the workers uniting to eliminate all the private property they would then become the rulers and the tables would