“...the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern industry and of the world­market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway…” – Karl Marx. Karl Marx in the communist manifesto, praises the Bourgeois for establishing a world­market, which gave birth to immense development in commerce, navigation, communication and expanding the industry. However, he also argues, that as the bourgeois continue to broaden the 22 capital market, it pushes back every other class to a lesser decreed. As the bourgeois developed, so did their political power. The bourgeois exploits the proletariat as laborers, a mere commodity to the means of production to further their own interests in establishing themselves as the dominant power. The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, with them the whole relations of society 24.

Therefore, as the bourgeois try to maximize their profits through the mechanics of competition and free trade, nations become interdependent on each other, and the proletariat is not only from one country or region, but an international set of people. The labourers, are seen as a means of production, and therefore to maximize profit (which is the key goal of capitalists), labours are are exploited to a degree of unfair working conditions, low wages and ill­treatment as their availability or supply is more than its demand. Karl Marx, further writes that the bourgeois

creating a world after its own image Therefore, Marx delves into what we now know was 26. globalization when he writes about how barbarian countries and semi­barbarian countries become dependant on the civilised ones. Today, we see that jobs of developed countries are outsourced to lesser developed countries to