KARL MARX TUESDAYS

COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

(PHILIPPINE CHAPTER)

By: Comrade Mark Cua

Part I 

The Bourgeisie and the Proletariat

The Lower Strata of the middle class-the small trades people, the shop keepers, and retired tradesmen

generally handicraftsmen and peasants-all these sinks gradually into the proletariat.

Partly because of their Dimunitive Capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry

is carried on, and is swamped into competition with the large capitalists

Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population."

-Communist Manifesto

(Philippine Chapter)

As the larger Capitalists and Bourgeisie are eating up the trades man, shopkeepers, and business owners small and medium ones, they are being likely to become the proletariat. First reason is that the income they had is either not enough or none at all. The Larger Capitalists eats them up and dominate the market these people are moving in as they are trading. 

The fierce competition with huge and large capitalists is often times bloody and unfair. They often oppress the small and medium business owners thus making sure they dominate the market and society. This is also same concept as to political dynasties.

They want to control more and more whats lacking is that their dead forefathers would rise from the dead and join politics too under the Philippine Democratic System. They eat up all the equal and wonderful opportunities as promised by the fallacies of Democracy. They want the power unto their own families just like the Spanish Encomienda system. 

Those victimized and oppressed are thus becoming the proletariat feared by the capitalists which they are trying to destroy.