The intellectuals feel that the workers deserve to be a significant economic and political actor in South Korea’s society (Lee, 2005, p. 922). Based on the intellectual’s praises, they seem to want to elevate the working class’s social position in South Korea’s society. In what kind of society do workers play a prominent role? When it comes to answering that question, many would think of a communist one. In a communist society, the workers play a prominent role in ensuring equality in the society (ex. via redistributing wealth). However, the workers cannot ensure equality without carrying out an uprising. On that note, Lee also notes the intellectuals praising the working class’s “resistance to exploitation and oppression in the workplace and in society at large” (Lee, 2005, p. 922). Why would the intellectuals praise the worker’s ability to resist exploitation and oppression? Are they perhaps anticipating their ability to rise up one day and overthrow the upper class? If that is the case, their expectation of class warfare serves as a strong evidence for their desire to live in a communist society (where workers play a prominent
The intellectuals feel that the workers deserve to be a significant economic and political actor in South Korea’s society (Lee, 2005, p. 922). Based on the intellectual’s praises, they seem to want to elevate the working class’s social position in South Korea’s society. In what kind of society do workers play a prominent role? When it comes to answering that question, many would think of a communist one. In a communist society, the workers play a prominent role in ensuring equality in the society (ex. via redistributing wealth). However, the workers cannot ensure equality without carrying out an uprising. On that note, Lee also notes the intellectuals praising the working class’s “resistance to exploitation and oppression in the workplace and in society at large” (Lee, 2005, p. 922). Why would the intellectuals praise the worker’s ability to resist exploitation and oppression? Are they perhaps anticipating their ability to rise up one day and overthrow the upper class? If that is the case, their expectation of class warfare serves as a strong evidence for their desire to live in a communist society (where workers play a prominent