The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

The expanding world market affects the national identity due to nations idea of civilization affecting one another. “The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization” (Marx 361). This quote by Marx’s is saying that the bourgeoisie way of living has affected how other countries run their business, which essentially affects how the world market is ran. The bourgeoisie idea uses massive production to the point where, “there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce” (Marx 362). This idea of over production eventually leads the countries, to whom which follow how the bourgeoisie run their trade, to become, “industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the country” (Marx 360). The concept of overproducing and expanding to whom you trade with affects how the county is looked upon and identified with. The way the bourgeoisie runs business affects how other societies run theirs, in order for these other countries to keep up with, what the bourgeoisie, call civilization. “…so has it made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West” (Karl 360). As the bourgeoisie build their trade and production it influences other countries to do the same, in order for them to keep their national identity.


Works cited
Marx, Karl. “The Communist Manifesto.” A World of Ideas: Essential Reading for College Writers. Lee A. Jacobs. 7th ed. New York; Bedford St. Martins, 2006. pp 357-377.