Caesar’s Column and Communist Manifesto: In Response to Prof. Hanley (continued)

As previously stated, according to Donnelly and Marx, technological progress reduces society into two classes: the bourgeois/“oligarchy” and the proletariat/“workers.” And that power is the product of wealth. Marx defines the bourgeois as capitalist, owners of property, the means of production, and the exploiters of the working class. Additionally, the proletariats are the wage-laborers who must sell their labor in order to survive. Similarly, the Oligarchy is a ruling class of corrupt plutocrats. And, the “workers,” are the product of plutocratic “misdeeds” and “indifference.”

Donnelly and Marx’s ideologies run parallel. They agree that economic power is the impetus for social, political, and moral decline. Additionally, to diffuse the power of the ruling class and to equalize, if not, empower the labor force. The redirection and investment of capital and the abolishment of private property are common ideologies that unite the authors. Donnelly’s approach and resolve for social, political, and economical reform are palatable compared to the absolutism of Marx and Engels.

Edith