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Quite the contrary, many modern corporations are run with programs such as profit sharing. Feedback from employees is encouraged, as companies are becoming more mindful of the ways job satisfaction positively impacts productivity.
What Marx and Engels could not and did not envision was the next revolution to follow the Industrial Revolution: the information revolution. An economy that depends more and more on abstract services rather than products is one that fosters teamwork and collaboration, cooperation, and profit sharing. To have employees with vested personal interests in a company is no longer anomalous. Many of Marx's dreams are coming true finally, a century and a half after writing the Manifesto.
Of course, all these changes are taking place within the system of capitalism. Capitalism has not been overthrown as Marx predicted. A genuine proletariat revolution, in which workers unite, can indeed take place within a system in which profit empowers those very workers. The fruits of the Communist Manifesto can be seen also on a political level. Governments throughout much of Western Europe have incorporated socialist ideals of caring for citizens via public...
Social programs do not negate capitalism and in many cases are run on a for-profit basis. Those programs still do enable the empowerment of individuals, which is the crux of Marx's argument.
The forces influencing Marx and Engels at the time of writing cannot be underestimated. Taken in historical context, it is easy to see why Marx and Engels rebelled against the encroachment of capitalism. Capitalism represented -- and in some cases still does -- the very worst of the human spirit. Greed, corruption, and exploitation of the poor are hallmarks of capitalism. Marx and Engels also wrote during a time in which colonialism and imperialism were used to force European hegemony and the hegemony of the rich over the entire world. Those days are over.
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