In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels write about the conflict between two classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie is the people who own the means of production. They own factories, land and even own people as commodities. The proletariat is the workers, the people who work for the people who own the means of production. What Marx and Engels try to convey in the first passage is that industrialization has created a much larger prison for the working class. Before the proletariat there were serfs who worked for the aristocrats in a smaller, more controlled space. After the end of feudalism, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat were created. The proletariat now works under capitalism. But there were not only upper and lower classes, there were people in between, as he himself states: “Like ordinary soldiers of industrial armies they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants.” There is a whole hierarchy that goes from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat. Then its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." What Marx and Engels mean is that the bourgeoisie has no choice but to create its own gravediggers, who are the proletariat. They're not trying to be greedy, per say, they're earning more to stay afloat, to take care of their families. However, the proletarians try to take care of their families and also stay afloat, the difference is that they are exploited and this creates angry people who will overthrow the bourgeoisie. All this is inevitable because the capitalist system becomes more and more ruthless and for this reason in the end there will be many people who are at the bottom and who will be difficult to control. Marx and Engels turn to history to demonstrate how ruthless class struggle ultimately leads to a