Reaction to Engels and Marx Reading

I believe Engels and Marx are directing their writing in the Manifesto of the Communist Party to the bourgeoisie. When the authors begin discussing the ideology of communism they begin statements with you. You is the bourgeois, that would be most opposed to the ideas of communism. However, I believe the target audience is actually the proletarians. The proletarians have the majority to rise against the bourgeoisie. The authors are offering the idea of communism, with no private property, as a reason and incentive for the proletarian to act.

Bourgeoisie are the oppressors of a country. The bourgeoisie is a small minority of middle class owners of property. The bourgeoisie believe in capitalism which encompasses the idea of free trade, and free buying and selling. The bourgeoisie supports capitalism because it allows its members to gain wealth and property while paying the proletarians, or working class, the minimum wage. Minimum wage in this sense is the minimum amount of money necessary to continue to live.

The Manifesto of the Communist Party is directed at the bourgeoisie because it discusses how "you" would be horrified to hear of abolishing private property. These and other statements are directed at ideas that the bourgeoisie would be opposed to in terms of communism. The authors also state that the bourgeoisie would be opposed because it would cause individuality to vanish once private property is abolished. These statements are used to point fingers at the bourgeoisie while empowering the proletariat.

Proletarians are the oppressed. They are the working class, who are employed by members of the bourgeois. The proletariat maintains a large majority of the population. They typically don't own property and must continuously work to maintain a living.

"The Proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority." (Engels & Marx, 6) The proletarian movement is assisted by those on the lower edges of the bourgeois such as shopkeepers, landlords, manufactures, etc. And a small section of the bourgeoisie join the proletarian revolution because it is the class the holds the future in its hands. Also the "dangerous class", the people from the lowest layers of the old society can also be swept in to support the proletariat.