Marx still felt that economic power was the ultimate guarantee of political power Bourgeois society was the result of those laws of social development which mad it inevitable that a certain stage of historical development one social class pursuing its own interests, should dispossess and exploit another social class. (Kreis 3)As a class Marx felt that the bourgeoisie are doomed to disappear without even knowing it because they had dug their own graves and had set themselves up for failure. Marx was sure of this because when he speaks, he does not speak in the name of human beings but of universal laws. “He seeks not to rescue, nor to improve, but to warn and condemn, to reveal the truth and to refute falsehood” (Kreis 3). The most important political event during the existence of the International was the Paris Commune of 1871. This came about right when the citizens of Paris rebelled against their government and held the city for two months. During this bloody suppression, Marx wrote one of his most famous pamphlets, The Civil War in France, which was an enthusiastic defense of the Commune.The manifesto is meant to achieve two major goals: to convert the proletarians and their allies to Marx’s version of socialism and to put the ruling class with the intentions of the revolutionaries. There are both good and bad sides of the manifesto. It portrays both hopes and threats.During the last decade of his life Marx’s health declined and he was incapable of giving the sustained effort that had always characterized his work. Over the years Marx’s traveled to European spas and even Algeria in search of recuperation. During these times that he was really ill, his eldest daughter and wife passed and this clouded the last years of his life. Marx’s wife died on December 2, 1881. On the fourteenth of March in 1883, the greatest living thinker ceased to think anymore because Karl Heinrich Marx had passe...
