Bourgeoisie And Proletariat Essay

Since the beginning of time in history, there have always been two opposing sides fighting for their beliefs. Marx points out that as time progresses, these two opposing sides progress as well. One is the oppressor and the other is the oppressed struggling to fight off the dominant power, i.e. freeman and slave, lord and serf, and so forth. Ranks have always been incorporated into society, whether in ancient Roman time or in the Middle Ages or during the modern bourgeois society. In the modern Bourgeois society, they have formed new classes and new forms of oppression, in place of the former types, i.e. Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. Throughout the following paragraphs, issues of reason, equality, and freedom will be discussed, and how the proletariats …show more content…
Capital is a collective product and it results in a united action of all members of society. (Marx, 2016, pg. 84) Therefore, when capital is transformed into common property, all members of society will benefit from it. Wage labor is the minimum wage. Communism just wants to eliminate the idea that labor lives solely to increase capital. In the bourgeois society, they believe that the past is dominant over the present and that capital is independent and has individuality, as opposed to the living person, meanwhile, the communist society believes that the present is dominant over the past. The bourgeois society is best defined with Rousseau’s text stating, “That the privileged few should gorge themselves with superfluities, while the starving multitude are in want of the bare necessities of life.” (Rousseau, 2016, pg. 28) Rousseau’s text perfectly portrays how the bourgeoisie and the proletariat lived before communism was introduced. In Rousseau’s text, he refers to the ‘privileged few’ when translated to Marx’s text, it resembles the Bourgeoisie and how they lived freely and happily, while the proletariats suffered and lost all familial