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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which the film “All Quiet on the Western Front” illustrates some of the points Karl Marx made in “The Communist Manifesto.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in history, as it is the foundation of the Communist Party. This paper discusses the way some of the basic ideas in the Manifesto are illustrated in the classic 1930
film, All Quiet on the Western Front. Discussion World War I was savage and senseless and decimated an entire generation of young men from all the combatant nations. The images
from that war are still familiar: the trenches, the barbed wire of no-mans land, the gas attacks. It can also be seen as illustrative of some of the principles set
forth by Marx and Engels. The first part of the Manifesto (which is in four parts) is the one in which Marx outlines his thinking about class struggle for which
the work is famous. He begins with this: "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles" (Marx and Engels). He explains that throughout the history
of humanity there have always been oppressors and oppressed, and that the struggle between them is an "uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either
in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes" (Marx and Engels). The First World War can be seen as an event
that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie
and Proletariat" (Marx and Engels). This type of class distinction can easily be seen in the way wars are fought: young men march off to the front to engage in
actual combat while old men remain in the rear, plotting strategy. Its probably no accident that many of the young men are poor and middle class while the old men
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