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In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, in one passage, write about the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat :

"Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers. As privates of the industrial armies they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself. The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is."

And in another passage (p. 483), Marx and Engels concludes with the following sentence:

"What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

In this brief essay, explain the meaning of the first passage-as you understand it-and how it relates to the second. To do so, you will need to read the whole assignment of The Communist Manifesto. In interpreting this passage, you will want to include an explanation of who the capitalist or bourgeoisie is, why are laborers called "slaves," what does Marx and Engels mean when they write the bourgeoisie claims "gain to be its end and aim" and why Marx and Engels conclude by arguing the bourgeoisie produce their own "grave diggers." Why is it inevitable?