Power Struggles Through the Lens
In the film, Matewan, Marx’s view on capitalism foreshadows the disputes between the social classes; bourgeoisie and proletariat. It adequately displays the class antagonisms present, during this time period, within the feudal society. The bourgeoisie consisted of the upper-class, businessman in suits, and developers/owners of production. In the film, the bourgeois is the mining company of Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency hired seven armed men to end the union formation between the coal mine workers. The proletarians consisted of people who participated in goods and services involving labor and a negligible income. In the film, the coal miner workers; white, black, and Italian, make up the proletarian class. …show more content…
Joe simply brings awareness of the unknown barbarism that is a result of the bourgeois’ influence and doing. He then comes up with a solution to end the unjust actions of the upper class by concluding they all need to work together. In efforts to achieve this studious goal, they declare the formation of a union between all the ethnic backgrounds. This is a clear example of Marx’s ideas of what happens when the workers (production services) no longer want to adhere to the bourgeois unfair rules of production. As Marx states in the Manifesto, this imposes a threat to the existence of the way they run things; insensitive pay, treacherous working conditions, and no …show more content…
The workers shooting for their freedom and identity. The bourgeois has stolen the proletariat’s of their identity, yet have given them nothing in return at the same time (no property or meaning). According to Marx, they (proletariats) are forced to perform a simple task on a daily basis that inhibits their relationships with his/her friends and family while bribing them of their purposes in life. They have nothing that they can call their own because they have been registered and treated like property their whole lives by the bourgeoisie class. Marx believed the tension between the two classes was best described as dialectical materialism; distinct economic
In the film, Matewan, Marx’s view on capitalism foreshadows the disputes between the social classes; bourgeoisie and proletariat. It adequately displays the class antagonisms present, during this time period, within the feudal society. The bourgeoisie consisted of the upper-class, businessman in suits, and developers/owners of production. In the film, the bourgeois is the mining company of Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency hired seven armed men to end the union formation between the coal mine workers. The proletarians consisted of people who participated in goods and services involving labor and a negligible income. In the film, the coal miner workers; white, black, and Italian, make up the proletarian class. …show more content…
Joe simply brings awareness of the unknown barbarism that is a result of the bourgeois’ influence and doing. He then comes up with a solution to end the unjust actions of the upper class by concluding they all need to work together. In efforts to achieve this studious goal, they declare the formation of a union between all the ethnic backgrounds. This is a clear example of Marx’s ideas of what happens when the workers (production services) no longer want to adhere to the bourgeois unfair rules of production. As Marx states in the Manifesto, this imposes a threat to the existence of the way they run things; insensitive pay, treacherous working conditions, and no …show more content…
The workers shooting for their freedom and identity. The bourgeois has stolen the proletariat’s of their identity, yet have given them nothing in return at the same time (no property or meaning). According to Marx, they (proletariats) are forced to perform a simple task on a daily basis that inhibits their relationships with his/her friends and family while bribing them of their purposes in life. They have nothing that they can call their own because they have been registered and treated like property their whole lives by the bourgeoisie class. Marx believed the tension between the two classes was best described as dialectical materialism; distinct economic