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Read Marx/Engels The Communist Manifesto and answer the following questions:

1. How is the class structure of the modern bourgeois (liberal capitalist) epoch different from that of previous societies?
2. What role did the discovery of America play in the growth of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class)?
3. What role did the rise of machinery play in the growth of the bourgeoisie?
4. What is the relationship between the bourgeoisie and the modern state?
5. How did the values of the bourgeoisie transform the values of feudal society? What are the values of bourgeois society?
6. Reading in context, what is the meaning of the phrase all that is solid melts into air?
7. How did the bourgeois mode of production (industrial capitalism) become a global phenomenon?
8. How did the rise of bourgeois society affect the demographics of countryside and urban cities?
9. Why couldnt the feudal system maintain control over the growth of the bourgeoisie?
10. How does everything that previously contributed to the growth of the bourgeoisie eventually begin to contribute to its demise?
11. What is the status of the worker in capitalism?
12. How has work changed in capitalism?
13. What impact did the rise of modern industry have on small businesses (the petty shopkeeper, artisan, etc.)?
14. Summarize the stages of the development of the working classes (the proletariat) into a global , mass, revolutionary movement.

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