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A 4 page paper comparing the focus, tone and themes of Marx and Engel's Manifesto of the Communist Party and Ozment's The Burgermeister's Daughter. Marx is said to have lamented the failure of the "experiment" of communism shortly before his death, but the Manifesto of the Communist Party carries no hint of any uncertainty. Marx and Engels denounce the system that exists and present what they are determined will replace it. In contrast, The Burgermeister's Daughter chronicles one woman's efforts to effect social change on a much smaller scale and in single steps rather than in sweeping measures. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmarxMani.rtf
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The Burgermeisters Daughter is Steven Ozments account of a scandal in Schwabisch, Germany. The wealthy burgermeister disowned his promiscuous and scandalous daughter in 1525. Her response was
to bring suit against him for financial abandonment. He brought her back into the house and chained her to a heavy table to keep her under control; she later
escaped and then added charges of abuse to her existing lawsuit. In the course of the telling, Ozment examines religious and social changes underway at the time, using business
practices, the legal structure and the changing position of women for support. The Manifesto of the Communist Party, of course, is Marx and
Engels classic 1848 proposal for the communist state and explanations of the communist position. Publishers rarely classify the work as a political ideology anymore, but rather include it in
their sections examining economics. We now know that Marx was not entirely wrong in his views, but the fact remains that as an economist, Marx was then and remains
now mostly wrong in his assumptions and predictions. Adam Smith still provides a much better model of reality. Nevertheless, Marx and
Engels still present the view of a society that could be idyllic if they only could bring it into concert with human emotion and motivations. The purpose here is
to compare the focus, tone and themes of the two works. Focus Marx and Engels
focus on the assumption that the evolution of society is that the bourgeoisie ultimately will fail, that it will control society for a time but always will be unable to
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