communist manifesto and heart of darkness powe struggles
The Communist Manifesto and Heart of Darkness: Power Struggles While The Communist Manifesto and Heart of Darkness detail different ills of European civilization and different potential cures for those ills, ultimately, the two ills described in each of the texts are comparable in that they arise from the desire and struggle for power. In The Communist Manifesto, Marx outlines the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletarians and prescribes an “overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat” as a cure. (The Communist Manifesto, p.67) Heart of Darkness describes the struggle for power through imperialism and the capacity for darkness that is inherent to man’s nature. However, Conrad does not seem to offer any sort of cure to this ill in Heart of Darkness; the ill seems to be inescapable and incurable as the novel ends with Marlow seems to be headed toward “the heart of an immense darkness.” (Heart of Darkness, p.77) Although the ills discussed are distinctly different, they are both, fundamentally, struggles for power.
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx examines the oppression felt by the working class in Europe, known as the proletariat, at the hands of the ruling bourgeois class. Specifically, Marx analyzes the disproportionate distribution of wealth under the capitalist system. Finally, Marx urges the proletariat to fight for not only economic but also social equality with the bourgeois class and, most of all, the implementation of Communism. And while this ill and cure may seem only like a domestic governmental issue and revolution, it is not. Marx ultimately calls for "Communists everywhere [to] support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things." (The Communist Manifesto, P. 86) This strongly resembles the aim of imperialism: the extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force; but in this case it is not a matter of “a country’s”
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx examines the oppression felt by the working class in Europe, known as the proletariat, at the hands of the ruling bourgeois class. Specifically, Marx analyzes the disproportionate distribution of wealth under the capitalist system. Finally, Marx urges the proletariat to fight for not only economic but also social equality with the bourgeois class and, most of all, the implementation of Communism. And while this ill and cure may seem only like a domestic governmental issue and revolution, it is not. Marx ultimately calls for "Communists everywhere [to] support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things." (The Communist Manifesto, P. 86) This strongly resembles the aim of imperialism: the extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force; but in this case it is not a matter of “a country’s”