Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, writers of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, reflected the conflict theory primarily discussing the two opposing parties, bourgeoisie and proletariat. This statement of belief opposes the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, as it has constantly coerced or deceived the working class just so to maintain social order. Marx and Engels believed “that by theorizing they were actively influencing history. The Communist Manifesto can be understood as one attempt to influence history by spreading information about the communist movement” (SparkNotes Editors, n.d.).
In the conflict perspective, an organization functions to maximize their benefits. “The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.” The working class cannot use to its advantage a capitalist-established structure. The political structure ruled by capitalists was favourable to their class. As Engels retells Marx’s idea “, (ever since the dissolution of the primeval communal ownership of land) all history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.” The whole world was said to be affected by these capitalists who wanted to “create a world after its own image.” Their view on society is parallel to an arena where fighting occurs to gain power and status.
From the feudal society, a series of revolutions in the instruments of production and exchange resulted to widespread changes in society. The middle class, who constantly revolutionized the modes of production, also gained power in the modern State. Capitalism became the dominant structure after this change which brought about more power for the bourgeoisie. “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done