Analysis Of From The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

United Farm Workers
Through the course of time, members of society have experienced racial and gender inequalities to extend that members in society also face class difference. Class difference will dictate individual’s position of power in society. In society there are two groups of people, those who owns the means of production and those who don’t. In the article, “From the Communist Manifesto (1848)”, Marx examines the class division in society. The capitalist system divides into two different classes, the bourgeoisie in modern day known as the 1% and the proletariat which are considered the working members of society. This system is established to benefit the bourgeoisie (1%), thus leading to the alienation and exploration of working
Working under dangerous conditions led the workers to request precondition for the benefit of workers such as, wage increases to a livable wage, decent housing, to obtain education, and to live free from fear. This lead to the formation of the National Farmer Association (NFWA), founded by Cesar Chavez in Delano, in hopes to organize a union that would benefit farmworkers. Another, organization that had form was the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee Association (AWOC), founded by Dolores Huerta composed by Filipinos, Chicanos, Anglos and black workers organizing unions in the fields and strike. The Cesar Chavez union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California, and the two organizations later merged to become the United Farm Workers. Stressing nonviolent methods, Chavez drew attention for his causes through boycotts, marches and hunger strikes. The most crucial display of dissatisfaction on behalf of the workers was through the boycott of grapes. Which, had a great economic impact on the owners of the means of production, but also brought awareness of the unlivable living conditions farm workers had to
People of low income suffer alienation and exploitation by the owners of the means of production due to their necessity to survive. For instance, in modern day, day laborers are members of society who like the farm workers are exploited for their labor under dangerous conditions. In the article, “Litigation at work: Defending day Labor in Los Angeles”, Scott L. Cummings discusses the alienation and exploitation factors day labors encounter when he states, “Within the informal economy, there is ample evidence that day laborers are a particularly disadvantaged class. Research from the early 2000s found that day laborers are “primarily undereducated [with] limited English proficiency, which severely hinders them socially and economically.”36 Most are relatively recent immigrants, with a majority living in the United States five years or less, and three-quarters in the country ten years or less.37 Day laborers are mostly young men, almost all of whom come from México (77.5 percent) and Central America (20.1 percent).38 Nationwide, three-quarters of day laborers are reported to be undocumented migrants.39” Day laborers are modern day victims of the inequalities in our society who have no legal representation and are invisible to