Marx succinctly describes the history of society in terms of class struggle as “oppressor and oppressed. “Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman” and now the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, all which stood in constant opposition. The bourgeoisie is the “oppressor” in this case, being the social class who own the means of production and are concerned with withholding capital and wealth to ensure their economic supremacy. The proletariat refers to the common worker, mainly performing unskilled labor in factories (in the context of the time of Marx), for small wages. Essentially being exploited by the bourgeoisie, and at the same time, dependent on the bourgeoisie in order to live. Their labor
