The focus that I have selected for this short critical review is reading twelve from Marsh (1998 73:78) entitled Bourgeois and Proletarians: Marx's analysis of class relationships (1). This text was written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and drawn from Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1952) (1848) the manifesto of the communist party, Moscow: Progress, pp. 40-60. ... This is reinforced from a historical perspective in that only a handful of states have achieved communism and at present there are only three communist nations. Marx and Engels were also vague as to when such a revolution would o...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto, the sociologist discusses how the history of a society's economic structure will determine the contemporary societal conditions. ... While Karl Marx see's history as an opportunity for man to transform from a stratified society to an egalitarian one, Nietzsche may criticize Marx's use of empirical analysis when establishing the historic relationship between economic structure and class conflicts. Such an analysis is incompatible with Nietzsche's belief in forgetting history because it eliminates the qualitative and progre...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate