The quotation, “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie” means that government officials work in the interest of those who are the most influential- representing industry leader interests-, rather than in their own interest, the government is really run by the super wealthy (the 1%). While this quotation might have been from a while back, it is still very much true today. Some may deny that government isn’t controlled because people can vote all they want, but the truth is that the government will always be influenced heavily by lobbyists, or different groups. The bourgeoisie, are the social class who own the means of production and whose societal concerns are the value
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By increasing economic powers, the bourgeoisie began to gain political power, destroying the remainders of the old outdated society which pursued to restrict their determination. According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most decisive instance of this form of bourgeois self-determination. The bourgeois population, which is small compared to the proletariats control and influence the proletariats. Marx believes that because the proletariats are a majority, they should have the control over the means of production. Marx believes in "dictatorship of the proletariat" where basically the majority has the power, but since the bourgeois can afford more and own the means of production the state supports …show more content…
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx describes how Capitalism has increasing dominance of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie classes, the two major contending classes. He states that old classes, such as the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen, handicraftsmen, and peasants all gradually are pushed into becoming the proletariat. This is mostly because their small wealth cannot serve for the scale on which the other bigger businesses have. This smaller wealth population lags behind the competition with the large capitalists because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. In other words they cannot adapt to the fast pace of innovation. In the end, all the old classes of the population head over to the proletariat. These older classes sink into the proletariat mostly because they lack sufficient capital, but also because technology has rendered their specialized skills no longer useful. In both his day and today Marx was correct in his viewpoints. In his day, those who could not keep up with the current market would join the working force, being forced to work just to make a living. In the 20th century this is still happening, greater numbers of people are forced to sell their labor power in order to make a living. Some examples include, farmers moving away land to go work at cities, immigrants traveling around the world to work in better
By increasing economic powers, the bourgeoisie began to gain political power, destroying the remainders of the old outdated society which pursued to restrict their determination. According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most decisive instance of this form of bourgeois self-determination. The bourgeois population, which is small compared to the proletariats control and influence the proletariats. Marx believes that because the proletariats are a majority, they should have the control over the means of production. Marx believes in "dictatorship of the proletariat" where basically the majority has the power, but since the bourgeois can afford more and own the means of production the state supports …show more content…
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx describes how Capitalism has increasing dominance of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie classes, the two major contending classes. He states that old classes, such as the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen, handicraftsmen, and peasants all gradually are pushed into becoming the proletariat. This is mostly because their small wealth cannot serve for the scale on which the other bigger businesses have. This smaller wealth population lags behind the competition with the large capitalists because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. In other words they cannot adapt to the fast pace of innovation. In the end, all the old classes of the population head over to the proletariat. These older classes sink into the proletariat mostly because they lack sufficient capital, but also because technology has rendered their specialized skills no longer useful. In both his day and today Marx was correct in his viewpoints. In his day, those who could not keep up with the current market would join the working force, being forced to work just to make a living. In the 20th century this is still happening, greater numbers of people are forced to sell their labor power in order to make a living. Some examples include, farmers moving away land to go work at cities, immigrants traveling around the world to work in better