Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, although they wrote about distinct issues, there are ties between Douglass' infamous What to the Slave is The Fourth of July? and from The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx. Douglass and Marx are marking actual events that flooded the populations' lives, as well as their lives. At first glance there is the assumption that they are non-related, but further analysis will prove that hypothesis otherwise. Douglass and Marx are writing revolutionary ideas for the times in which they live and for which the cultures in which they live. They are writing in societies that have great rifts between rich and poor, powerful and powerless.
Both Douglass and Marx were engaged in organizations to help promote their views on civil issues. Douglass existed as a member of the Anti-Slavery Society and Marx was a member of the Co
Both Marx's manifesto of the struggles within society and Douglass' narration of the struggles within society can be drawn together because the Bourgeois Revolution of 1763-1776 not only broke the bonds of the British colonialism, but inevitably challenged the moral and political justification for slavery. The revolution allowed free blacks and slaves to fight for liberty alongside white revolutionary soldiers. And so when Marx identified the struggle of oppressed classes as the key to social progress, that principle justifies both the slaves and the tyrants and the Bourgeois and the Proletariat. Even though today, yet our society is still greatly divided by criteria of wealth, privilege, and color, Douglass and Marx stepped up and gave reasoning to the madness. I agree that Marx's idea that the struggle of oppressed classes is the key to social progress more than ever before.
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