Communist Manifesto Part 1

Chapter one of the Communist Manifesto was informing the reader about the social differences between the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie didn't live what many people would call an "extravagant" life, but they definitely lived more comfortably than the proletarians. The bourgeoisie basically ran this society. They looked down on the proletarians and did not care to make their lives any better as long as their own lives were how they wanted them to be. What interests me is that even though the bourgeoisie didn't make the "most money in the world," they acted like they did. The proletarians always worked hard for what they owned and earned every bit of it, and then there is the bourgeoisie that takes advantage of the working class, inconsiderate of the hard work they've done, simply for their own benefit. The easiest way for me to describe how different these two social classes lived is to just describe it as servantry. As terrible as the bourgeoisie sounds, they weren't the first of their kind. They were hardly the first social class group that took advantage of the lower classes. Like the First, Second, and Third Estate, the First and Second lived highly and unnecessarily comfortable while the Third had to work their hearts out everyday to give themselves and their family a sustainable life. But between the bourgeoisie and the proletarians, the bourgeoisie took major advantage of the proletarians because they viewed themselves as superior just because they had more money. In my opinion, I believe that bourgeoisie should be viewed as inferior to the proletarians because the proletarians obtain skills and have goals very unlike the bourgeoisie. The proletarians had goals to make their lives better and to give their families food and shelter and a life that they can live without suffering, and the bourgeoisie just lives a life where they can take money from people that worked hard for it because they feel like they can. But after every period of time where one social class oppresses another one, there will come a revolution where it will not be accepted anymore and it will be opposed by everyone that lives in the society to the point where they cannot belittle the lower social classes just because they feel like they have the power to do so because they have more money and resources.

The French Revolution Pg. 504-507

The second part of the Atlantic revolutions were in France. They Estate Generals that consisted of the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The Third Estate made up of the commoners started to revolt and came up with their own declaration called the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" which they wrote to declare that "men re born and remain free and equal in rights." All the actions that the Third Estate took were illegal in the ancien régime. This was what started the French Revolution. The French Revolution was different from the American Revolution because the American one was driven by the relationships between colonies with distant power and the French Revolution was driven by fighting within the French society. Everything that was going on in the revolution was strictly because of social conflicts within the country itself. Things took a turn for the worst when King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed as an extreme act of violence by the revolutionists. The Terror of 1793-1794 followed right after that. Thousands of people lost their lives behind the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre was later arrested because he was to blame for bringing the country to France to tyranny, dictatorship, and terror. Another way that the French were different from the Americas was that the Americans wanted to rebuild what they already had to fix everything. The French on the other hand decided to start all over again and build a brand new city from the old city that was destroyed. After the revolution everything completely changed in France that it was basically not even France anymore. It had changed into something completely different. Things either became something entirely new or they disappeared and were replaced with something else, like streets and buildings and titles. The French Revolution was a bad period of time in this country with good intentions. The people were trying to do what they thought was right, even though the whole rest of the country thought the complete opposite. What they were trying to achieve was somewhat reached, because maybe France didn't change in the exact way that the revolutionists wanted, but France did change.