Just like Thomas Paine, Karl Marx believed that knowledge is power. You don’t have to resort to violence in order to have power. The Communist Manifesto starts off with saying "The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles.” The quote means that the main problem that has been happening throughout history is the struggle each class with each other. From Karl Marx’s point of view of history, he noticed that there was a series of events that changed and destroyed the way of life the bourgeoisie were living which he mentions in the first section of the communist manifesto entitled "Bourgeois and Proletarians". Before the bourgeoisie were on top of the chain of power, society was organized in an old-fashioned order that was run by nobles, landowners and corporate guilds. When America was discovered, the bourgeoisie decided to follow the new way economic system that was expanding. A new class type of class came into creation, a manufacturing class, which took control of the international and domestic trade, since they were the class that was producing all the