government and the way things are done, it is very hard to switch to a totally different form of government. “The most common reply is that both are impossible because ‘you can’t change human nature’” (Brians 2). In many of Marx’s theories, he tried to prove that human nature had changes many times over the years and there is no such thing as a “static human nature” (Brians 2). He said that we are products of our environment and the economic system in which we live. “People living under feudalism are motivated by feudal motives and think them natural and fixed, just as people living under capitalism are motivated by capitalist motives and think those natural and fixed” (Brians 2). Marx says that sometimes people go through what is now called a “paradigm shift” in values, based on an economic transformation (Brians 3). This process Marx tries to sketch in the first part of his Manifesto. He said that if people’s values have changed radically in the past, they are certain to change again in the future. He felt that in a socialist society, it is very unlikely that people would always naturally become owners of factories because that is saying the same thing as to say that one can become owner of the moon.Although Marx does not address this in his Manifesto, it is important for one to understand why Marx believed that an armed revolution would be necessary to establish socialism. Because of the many things that had happened in Europe, he was convinced that the democratic revolutions had substituted one tyrant for another. The bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production) had replaced the old aristocracy as the rulers in the law as well as the rulers in fact. He felt that their slogans for freedom and equality for all concealed a determination to remain supreme over the proletariat or industrial laborers, which made up the vast majority of the society....
