talist mode of production would falter and surrender to the next stage of history" (Brophy 279), namely, the arrival of communism. Marx and Engels were German economists who wrote this tract in 1848.
According to the authors, history is a process which develops materialistically according to class struggle and the changes in production which accompany that process and socioeconomic struggle.
When Marx and Engels write that the bourgeoisie "produces
. . . its own grave-diggers" (Brophy 283), they are referring to their argument that as the propertied and powerful class continues to make economic changes and developments which are designed to increase their own wealth at the expense of the proletariat, or the working class, there inevitably takes place a widening of the gap between the rich and the working classes. This division will eventually lead to revolution and the downfall of the
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