In “The Communist Manifesto,” Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels go on to describe the two classes of the time and how the oppressed broke away from the oppressors through unity. There were two main groups or rather classes that Marx focused on through the entire chapter. One group was composed of the Bourgeois, which were the high and wealthy members of society. The other group was composed of the Proletarians, who were the hardworking low middle class. However, Marx made an argument in his chapter saying that there was no such thing as the “middle class” since the Bourgeoisie were the ones who ruled everything. Anybody who worked and did not own land or rather an industry could not consider themselves anything but part of the proletarians. He states that this way of being “has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into paid wage laborers” (Marx Chapter 1). Everyone fell under the rule of the bourgeoisie, they controlled everything and therefore had the power to do anything they wanted. That’s why the proletarians worked long hours in these ugly factories for barley any money. Marx described these hard working men as “a class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their laborers increases capital” (Marx Chapter 1). Basically telling the reader that they depended on this work and only found it if the higher ups benefited from it. Though as the chapter progressed Marx explained how the proletarians soon began to form what is called “unions” and through these unions challenged the bourgeois. Explaining to the reader that this movement was a ‘’self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority” (Marx Chapter 1). Eventually the proletarians were able to break down and overthrow the bourgeois through such unity.

This fits perfectly with Romanticism because the proletarians seemed to have no meaning when working for the bourgeois. They were only valuable if they could work to continue increasing their wealth. Romanticism argued and believed these human beings had their meaningful place in nature free from oppression and categorization of class. Nature was a whole in which they belonged to unlike the broken society they contributed to. If I were to take a guess in which direction this was going to I would say that we’re coming to a point of radical change. The oppressed are no longer unaware and are looking to take down their oppressors. Like Marx said it has been attempted before but now the only difference is these movements are backed by a majority overpowering the wealthy minority.