In modern society, there is perhaps no better example of this exploitation than Foxconn. As a manufacturing plant supplying parts and assemblies for a growing global consumer market, workers are continually exploited in ways that are consistent with Marx's description of the problems of capitalism. Not only are wages low and not increasing consistently with inflation, but workers are subject to bourgeois exploitation outside of the workplace, in the form of dormitories and corporate-owned stores. business. Wage workers are reduced to bare minimum subsistence, in a surprisingly modern interpretation of Marx's precise writings from the 1840s. However, it is important to note that this drastic form of exploitation only seems to occur in non-Western civilizations, in direct relation to the social regulation applied in the developed world. The Communist Manifesto is essentially a doctrine designed to appeal and explain to the general mass of the population the correctness and underlying justification of the modern communist movement. To do this, Marx reiterates yet another foundation of his thought on private property. Without understanding the principles rooted in private property, one cannot understand how the communist revolution would differ from past revolutions. Private property, as defined by Marx, is not the "foundation of all personal freedom, activity and independence", but rather bourgeois property, property acquired through the exploitation of wage labor for the purpose of generating more of capital for the ruling class. (Tucker, 484). In this, Marx clarifies the communist party's desire not to eliminate workers' personal property but rather ...... middle of paper ...... due to the higher standard of living enjoyed by the modern proletariat in the United States. Communism, although on paper solves the problems of capitalism, fails in a few key areas and therefore should only be seen as an example of attempting to rectify economic problems which need to be clarified and thought through further before action can be taken or even predicted. .Works CitedMarx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Marx-Engels reader. Ed. Robert C. Tucker. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1978. Print. Smirniotopoulos, Peter. "Is the United States capitalist, socialist, or something in between? Newgeography.com." New geography. December 6, 2008. Web. January 23, 2012. .SparkNotes Publishers. “SparkNote on the Communist Manifesto. » SparkNotes.com.SparkNotes LLC. nd. Internet. January 23. 2012.