communism
The Marxian view of history is a class struggle. Marx thought that every age put two classes of society against each other beginning with masters and slaves, down to the bourgeoisie and the laborer. One class was always exploited by the other because their interests were always completely opposite. As the lower class gained power a new class would arise that would eventually take over the old upper class. It caused a process that would create a merchant class and a working class from the struggle between the laborer and the bourgeoisie. But Marx felt that there was an end to this process. If there was only one class and an abolishment of private property, there would no longer be a class struggle. Private property has been a problem throughout history. It’s been a constant battle between the oppressor and the oppressed. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or a common
ruin of the contending classes”(474)Marx. Marx is saying that the class system is what ruins a form of government. The people with more private property are classed higher than people with less private property, causing people to become selfish and will do what ever it takes to become the higher class, leading to revolutions. The bourgeoisie has turned a person with a respectable profession into a wage laborer, making the value of the services unaffordable to the proletariat. “The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe, it has converted the physician, the lawyer , the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourer” (476). They have turned noble professions into a slave to the dollar. The high class, high in private property bourgeoisie needs the low class, low in private property if any proletariats to survive. With out the proletariats the bourgeoisie would not survive. “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society”(476). The bourgeoisie cannot exist without the proletariat. They need
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