Blog #5

So far this week, we have been reading Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.   For today, we had to read about the first half of the book.  I found the reading confusing for the most part, and for some reason parts of this book reminded me of A Tale of Two Cities.  I think that was because of the struggle of the lower classes to survive and the higher classes lived very easily.  Today in class we discussed the ideas that Marx was trying to get across in his book.  Marx believed that profit was a good thing, but not in large quantities. He didn't like that the lower classes were getting payed very little while the upper class had a profit surplus.    We also discussed in class the way that feudalism worked and how the classes changed from feudalism to capitalism.  After today's class, I hope that the reading will not be as confusing.