Karl Marx along with his friend and intellectual partner Frederick Engels wrote Communist Manifesto in 1848. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels have criticized capitalism, highlighted its flaws, and have wished for a new social system. They have criticized capitalism by stating that it is nothing but class exploitation. Capitalism has divided the people into two classes that include bourgeois which is also called the ruling class and proletarians, also known as the working class. The bourgeois is the one who controls all the means of production and they make laborers work to earn capital for them. Proletarians or the workers are just producers and do not get any benefit from their production. Instead, the capitalists make all the profits and accumulate wealth and do not pay the workers according to the cost of what they produce.
The Communist Manifesto has greatly emphasized on the difficulties and troubles that the labors have to endure in the industrial capitalist society. The authors have described that a worker in industrial capitalism is commoditized. The workers are considered a part of the machinery and are only important for the production of objects that are to be sold in the market. The workers are also alienated as they are separated from the product and have no control over their creation. Marx and Engels have also stated that in order to expand the market for their products, the capitalists would move to other countries as well. They have predicted that the constant desire for acquiring new markets and cheap labor would result in now what we call globalization.
However, they have also praised this new industrial transformation for the fact that it would eradicate old feudal systems and would unite the workers enabling them to bring a communist revolution against the exploitation they face. It would enable them to construct a new social system where they would be the one to gain benefits from their products.