The film "Office Space" depicts several software company employees trying and failing to rebel against the company they work for. The revolutions against the leadership and their subsequent failures are explained by Karl Marx's theories on the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in the Communist Manifesto. Workers have not gone far enough in their attempts to improve their living conditions. To prove that the failed employee rebellions can be explained by the Communist Manifesto, one must first prove that the film accurately represents the proletarian and bourgeois classes and their struggle. In this film, the employees of Initech, particularly the main character Peter Gibbons, and their upper management, particularly Bill Lumbergh, represent the continuation of "the freedman and the slave, the patrician and the plebeian, the lord and the serf, the guild master and the journeyman” in the world. many forms of “oppressor and oppressed” in society (Marx). The film then serves as a microcosm of the class struggle. The bourgeoisie is described by Marx as increasing its power through “naked, shameless and brutal exploitation” of the working class (Marx). This behavior depicts the actions of Initech's bosses, with the film primarily motivated by the exploitation of their workers. This is best seen in the fact that they fire every employee possible to maximize profits and manipulate Milton's problems to air his grievances (Office Space). Marx also writes that the bourgeoisie “constantly revolutionizes the instruments of production, and therefore the relations of production, and with them all the relations of society”, in its quest for more capital (Marx). This is also seen in the Initech company, where employees are busy changing software...... middle of paper ...... thing because they did not want the complete overthrow of the bourgeoisie, they want things to change but they don't want to be in charge. They would not be described as communists but as bourgeois socialists, because they “want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers” (Marx). The problem is that the bourgeoisie should be “for the benefit of the people”. working class,” and in Marx’s work and in the film, the bourgeoisie did things solely for their own benefit (Marx). The characters and events of the film “Office Space” are an iteration of the bourgeoisie, the proletariat and the conflict between the two. Actions and events can be explained by Marx's theories on the interaction between the two. It is from his theories that we can understand why the characters cannot really escape their banal lives..