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"One Thing Leads to Another" Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, although they wrote about distinct issues, there are ties between Douglass' infamous What to the Slave is The Fourth of July? and from The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx. Douglass and Marx are marking actual events that flooded the populations' lives, as well as their lives. At first glance there is the assumption that they are non-related, but further analysis will prove that …

…the struggle of oppressed classes as the key to social progress, that principle justifies both the slaves and the tyrants and the Bourgeois and the Proletariat. Even though today, yet our society is still greatly divided by criteria of wealth, privilege, and color, Douglass and Marx stepped up and gave reasoning to the madness. I agree that Marx's idea that the struggle of oppressed classes is the key to social progress more than ever before.