2. Abstract: Marx and Engles theorized that capitalism would eventually collapse and its overthrow in a proletarian revolution. In a broad sense, there is great competition between capitalist. With this competition capitalist increase division of labor, machinery and production, which allows them to sell more cheaply. There begins to be a competition between workers because everyone begins competing for the same jobs. Since the work does not require a degree they hire from the “reserve only”. Work is deskilled so their wages are decreased, and there are longer hours in the workday. This leads to a polarization of wealth and poverty, and results in a crisis of overproduction. I discuss Marx and Engles theory on what leads to a proletarian revolution
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The development and fall of capitalism begins with polarization of wealth and poverty. Capitalist are always competing with each other and improving their machinery and division of labor to sell more cheaply. With a polarization of wealth and poverty, the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. This then leads to class struggle and crisis of production. With a crisis in production, there are oligopolies of big capitalist where the state must take over, thus leading to communism. During the final stages of capitalism, there is a polarization of wealth and poverty. People realize that the bourgeois is superfluous and overthrow the capitalist class: the state takes over. Small capitalist fall into the proletariat and cannot even compete with other larger capitalist. This causes for people to loose jobs because labor is increased and everything becomes cheaper. “The class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew” (Tucker, …show more content…
A class in itself is composed of despotic work, there is someone dictating all of the work that the workers do. Capitalist thrive off of exploitation and competition. In order to pay their workers more cheaply they hire immigrants, children and inmates. Wage laborers do not realize that part of their eight-hour workday goes towards capitalists profit. They keep making more money while the workers wage keeps falling. This also leads to workers becoming de-skilled. With more machinery and improved technology, capitalist don’t need to hire anyone with a degree because the work they are doing does not require much skill. In order for a revolution, forces of production have to be sufficiently developed for communism to take its place. To sum much of this up “The more productive capital grows, the more the division of labor and the application of machinery expands. The more the division of labor and the application of machinery expands, the more competition among workers expands and the more their wages contract” (Tucker 216). In capitalism competition keeps rising and production keeps increasing. The problem is the workers keep being exploited and the distinction between classes grows more and
The development and fall of capitalism begins with polarization of wealth and poverty. Capitalist are always competing with each other and improving their machinery and division of labor to sell more cheaply. With a polarization of wealth and poverty, the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. This then leads to class struggle and crisis of production. With a crisis in production, there are oligopolies of big capitalist where the state must take over, thus leading to communism. During the final stages of capitalism, there is a polarization of wealth and poverty. People realize that the bourgeois is superfluous and overthrow the capitalist class: the state takes over. Small capitalist fall into the proletariat and cannot even compete with other larger capitalist. This causes for people to loose jobs because labor is increased and everything becomes cheaper. “The class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew” (Tucker, …show more content…
A class in itself is composed of despotic work, there is someone dictating all of the work that the workers do. Capitalist thrive off of exploitation and competition. In order to pay their workers more cheaply they hire immigrants, children and inmates. Wage laborers do not realize that part of their eight-hour workday goes towards capitalists profit. They keep making more money while the workers wage keeps falling. This also leads to workers becoming de-skilled. With more machinery and improved technology, capitalist don’t need to hire anyone with a degree because the work they are doing does not require much skill. In order for a revolution, forces of production have to be sufficiently developed for communism to take its place. To sum much of this up “The more productive capital grows, the more the division of labor and the application of machinery expands. The more the division of labor and the application of machinery expands, the more competition among workers expands and the more their wages contract” (Tucker 216). In capitalism competition keeps rising and production keeps increasing. The problem is the workers keep being exploited and the distinction between classes grows more and