Bourgeois and Brooches
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx described what would be the rise and fall of capitalism, a series of revolutions between classes. The proletarians, the lower class, would rebel against a society ruled by the bourgeois, the upper class. Anton Chekov depicted the beginnings of a proletarian revolution Marx described on a small scale in “An Upheaval”, the lack of respect between people.
Marx mentioned that members of a capitalist society do not see each other as people. He said that the bourgeoisie has torn apart relations between workers and their employers. He wrote, “The bourgeoisie, wherever it has the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations” (Marx, 659). Instead of garnering respect for their fellow man, the members of a capitalist society do not see each other as people. On the same page, Marx adds that the only relation keeping people together is “naked self-interest, than callous cash payment”. Employers only see their employees as money-makers, drones making their products, and employees only see their employers as the hand that passes their paycheck to them. Capitalism has completely dehumanized the economy. In Chekov’s tale, Mashenka becomes enraged when the master and …show more content…
Marx says, “oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large” (Marx, 657). Throughout history, there had been a succession of revolutions between the bourgeois and proletarians. Each revolution led to a node their revolution that will one day lead to a communist utopia. The actions of the bourgeois will incite new feelings of discontent in the lower classes that will allow history to repeat itself
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx described what would be the rise and fall of capitalism, a series of revolutions between classes. The proletarians, the lower class, would rebel against a society ruled by the bourgeois, the upper class. Anton Chekov depicted the beginnings of a proletarian revolution Marx described on a small scale in “An Upheaval”, the lack of respect between people.
Marx mentioned that members of a capitalist society do not see each other as people. He said that the bourgeoisie has torn apart relations between workers and their employers. He wrote, “The bourgeoisie, wherever it has the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations” (Marx, 659). Instead of garnering respect for their fellow man, the members of a capitalist society do not see each other as people. On the same page, Marx adds that the only relation keeping people together is “naked self-interest, than callous cash payment”. Employers only see their employees as money-makers, drones making their products, and employees only see their employers as the hand that passes their paycheck to them. Capitalism has completely dehumanized the economy. In Chekov’s tale, Mashenka becomes enraged when the master and …show more content…
Marx says, “oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large” (Marx, 657). Throughout history, there had been a succession of revolutions between the bourgeois and proletarians. Each revolution led to a node their revolution that will one day lead to a communist utopia. The actions of the bourgeois will incite new feelings of discontent in the lower classes that will allow history to repeat itself