Communist Manifesto Rhetorical Analysis

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The Bourgeois and Proletarians Analysts The Communist Manifesto, written primarily by Karl Marx, explores many topics throughout several sections. The section entitled The Bourgeois and Proletarians discusses the history of the class systems and how it relates to the modern bourgeois. Marx uses several rhetorical techniques to compare history with modern times and uses them in different ways to make his argument about the classes and the struggles between them. In this writing Marx’s makes many references to historical times and there different forms of class, allusions. He then presents the classes in a list. He uses this system three times, in order to help the reader understand that there has always been a hierarchy in the …show more content…
He places all the classes in list. By doing this he creates not only a sense of comparison but also a sense of repetition. This makes the systems all seem like the same thing in different words. This is somewhat true, in all the class you have poor, middle, and upper classes, they just have different names. Cause and effect is also used to help understand how the people got to the modern market and two major classes. Marx talks about how the colonization of America and the rounding of the cape led to many changes in the markets. These two things led to greater trade, which made a need for things to be quicker, easier, and cheaper. This trend counties to the time the Communist Manifesto was written and continues still today. He uses this to show how the upper class uses the lower class to further themselves. Marx see this to be the constant struggle of the classes. Karl Marx used many rhetorical techniques to analyse history and compare it to his time. He used many of these tech quinces together to make his argument more effective. He uses logos mostly to support his argument trying to apeal to the logical part of the human mind. He explains the struggle of the classes though examples in both history and modern