Marx sees that oppression is present within every class system.
The class system is faulty due to its favor for those who inherit their wealth. This class is known as the bourgeoisie, people who created the feudal system. This group used religion and politics to first gain power and continued to use it to show that they are the superior class (16 Marx). These individuals rely on the fact that they will not have to work for their money thus allowing for a more extravagant lifestyle when compared to an average proletariat: modern wage laborers. The hard working classes see almost no change in their wealth over a lifetime and tend to transform overtime. “The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class… they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own …show more content…
The proletarians are a much stronger people than the bourgeoisie believe them to be. The proletarians are willing to work with what little they have to help each other. Since they outnumber the bourgeoisie it is possible for them to overthrow the false narrative that surrounds them. Marx’s idea of the bourgeoisie’s role in the class system is largely thought of with this in mind, “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society” (Marx 16). In order for the bourgeoisie to continue its power they must invent new works that will interfere with an uprising from the proletariat class. It is only when this is
The class system is faulty due to its favor for those who inherit their wealth. This class is known as the bourgeoisie, people who created the feudal system. This group used religion and politics to first gain power and continued to use it to show that they are the superior class (16 Marx). These individuals rely on the fact that they will not have to work for their money thus allowing for a more extravagant lifestyle when compared to an average proletariat: modern wage laborers. The hard working classes see almost no change in their wealth over a lifetime and tend to transform overtime. “The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class… they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own …show more content…
The proletarians are a much stronger people than the bourgeoisie believe them to be. The proletarians are willing to work with what little they have to help each other. Since they outnumber the bourgeoisie it is possible for them to overthrow the false narrative that surrounds them. Marx’s idea of the bourgeoisie’s role in the class system is largely thought of with this in mind, “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society” (Marx 16). In order for the bourgeoisie to continue its power they must invent new works that will interfere with an uprising from the proletariat class. It is only when this is