Marx's ideals of communism stemmed from the awareness that the cycle of revolutions caused by class struggles throughout history takes society nowhere. Society as a whole was increasingly dividing into two large enemy camps, into two large directly opposed classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. According to Marx, for society to progress, a mass proletarian revolution should occur. The bourgeois, who were the employers and owners of the means of production, constituted the majority of modern capitalists. It was these individuals who controlled capitalist society by exploiting the labor provided by the proletariat. For example, the bourgeoisie makes property a right because it is they who have the property. However, without the power of the workforce to support them, the bourgeois class would collapse. To bring about a revolution, the workers (proletariat) would need to rise up against the bourgeoisie and take back the factors of production. Marx believed that after the inevitable revolution of the proletariat against the oppressive force of the bourgeoisie, a communist form of government would take hold. Under the oppression of the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, who constituted the mass majority, possessed only one resource: their labor. . However, the bourgeoisie could not continue to exist without the instruments of production. Since the common worker lived only as long as he could find work, and could only work as long as his labor increased capital, he continued to be oppressed by the bourgeoisie, who controlled capitalist society by exploiting the labor provided by the proletariat. People sell their labor power to a buyer, not to satisfy the for...... medium of paper... his ideals and theories were influenced by popular philosophical circles present throughout Europe. Saint Simon was a French nobleman whose interpretation of socialism called for a government run by scientists. Proudon was another radical thinker who influenced Marx. Proudon's book, “What is Property” focuses on the privatization of property and concludes that factors of production are theft. When Marx moved to France, he encountered many different socialist viewpoints that inspired his argument known as historical materialism. This argument stated that the world is not changed by ideas but by real, physical and material activity and practice and can be linked to the theme of the injustice of exploitation. This is why the Manifesto speaks out against child labor and against violations of the proletarian family by the bourgeoisie..