Communist Manifesto

This reading response consists of three questions. Please answer all three. Who are the bourgeoisie for Marx? Use the entire text to answer this question. Be sure to define them as specifically and as completely as you can. Who are the proletariat according to Marx? Use the entire text to answer this question. Be sure to define them as specifically and as completely as you can. Marx writes towards the end of the Manifesto: “That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine. But don’t wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc. Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class” (Sayre, 13). According to Marx, what is culture, and what is the source and origin of all culture? In approximately 250 words (one page), make a clear, focused argument (thesis statement) that tackles these questions clearly and directly but also substantively.