Bourgeoisie

The war between Aristocrats, Bourgeoisie, and Proletarians was stirred when Karl Marx produced the book The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto is both a reaction to the events of the French revolution and a reflection of industrialization and nationalism in 19th century Europe, in the sense that the Bourgeoisie are the sole issue. A few key ideas that will be discussed is Marx’ view of history, the French Revolution, the current state of affairs in Europe, the role gender played, as…

THE BOUGEOISIE, THE PROLETARIATS AND CLASS STRUGGLE: MARXIAN SOCIOLOGY Sociology of Class conflict Marxian sociology is also called “The sociology of class conflict.” The main idea of Marxian Class Theory is to be found in the opening of his “Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848” which reads as follows: “The history of the hitherto existing society is the history of the class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journey man, in a word,…

that produce goods. Marx believed in a two class system in which the bourgeoisie resides as the ruling capitalist class while the proletariats reside as the working class. The description of both classes can be summarized as the bourgeoisie owning the means of production and the proletariats must sell their labor to earn a wage to be able to survive. A Gentle Men’s Guide to Love and Murder shows the ruling class or bourgeoisie as mean ill-fit to rulers that the common man…

In The Absolute Bourgeois, T. J. Clark notes that much of Millet’s work from the early 1850s reduces the lives of the proletariat to menial existences: “They [Millet’s pieces] do no more than illustrate their tasks, they are created to grasp the hay or wield the pitchfork…they are not so much anonymous as perfunctory.” Indeed, Millet and the other artists of his time created works that blended technical mastery with profound subtextual content. Their cleverly composed pieces often stirred…

reactions to the policies brought upon in June that gave conservatives power, they use forceful behaviors like barricades, artillery, and riflemen to kill the revolution in Paris. Marx had become annoyed with the behavior as he described being “the bourgeoisie tumbling over each other in a hurry to patch up their differences with Prussia’s monarchy”. Shortly after, he eventually cut all ties he had with the bourgeois democratic associates. The authorities in Cologne did not agree with his…

in his time, but it is still relevant today. Marx said there were two classes of people in the world. The first was the ruling class or as he called them the bourgeoisie [bo͝orZHwäˈzē]. The second was the workers of the world which he called the proletariat [prōləˈterēət] (Kishlansky, 2009). During his lifetime he saw that the bourgeoisie had set up a system were the proletariat were set in a system of wage slavery. As he put it, they were paid a minimum wage for their labor that only gave them…

refers to a society in which the means of production is controlled by the bourgeois class, who then depend on the society’s lower classes for labor (the working, proletariat class). Within Goblin Market, a Marxist can visualize the goblins as the Bourgeoisie, who are depicted as evil, violent, and unattractive animal-like creatures who work tirelessly to gain control of the sisters (who can be seen as the Proletariat) with the products that they sell (their exotic fruits that are said to have…

class struggle ravaged natives and kept most of them poor during pre-independence. However, even after independence was gained, this class system stayed in place. Europeans were still able to exploit people and their land using the new African Bourgeoisie that had rose. This is best seen in the play I Will Marry When I Want by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Ngugi Wa Mirii.…

In 2012, one of the biggest movies was The Hunger Games, based on The Hunger Games novels by Susanne Collins. The movie is about the annual event that the Capital holds to remind everyone of their victory in a war against the Districts. Also, it represents their generosity and forgiveness to those who has revolted against them. The games requires all boys and girls between the ages 12 to 18 to participate as tributes in a life and death battle against one another until only one remains.…

to become more modern and developed—more “civilized”. The new capitalist-neoliberal enterprise required transformations. Marx and Engels further illustrate regarding capitalism, “It compels all nations, on the pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeoisie mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst; i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image” (Marx and Engels, 1992: 7). The Kurdish leaders having…