“We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class...The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest [take], by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i. e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class [or government]; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible…” The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848 According to Karl Marx, why should the proletariat rise up against the wealthy, elite ruling class (aka The Bourgeoisie)? *

Equality
Revenge
Efficiency
Industrialization