First, I believe that it is important to understand how capitalism originated. For a capitalist society to function properly, some sort of class struggle must exist between the individuals who belong to different socioeconomic groups. Class struggle is the key to an economic system. It has existed since ancient times. During this era, Rome, Greece, and Babylon were the strongest nations of civilization. The ruling class, also known as the Patricians, ran these civilizations. They were extremely wealthy, well educated, and had control over most of the land. The middle class of citizens comprised of few individuals during this time, and the working class during that period consisted of people who were treated like slaves. These people had very few, if any, rig

According to Marx, in bourgeoisie or capitalist society, businesses make a profit by the products or services that they are selling to a market of consumers. The employees, or proletarians, that makes these products usually consist of working class citizens, and the owner/CEOs of the businesses are comprised of a small elite upper class.

Marx believed that with the lack of capital a person has, the more alienated a person is from the self, from other people, from the product they are selling, and finally, form the production process. According to Marx, “if the product of labour does not belong to the worker, if it confronts him as an alien power this can only be because it belong to some other man than the worker, only man himself can be this alien power over man” (Marx 78).

Although it is the proletarians who are doing all of the work and producing all of the products, the bourgeoisie is the only one sees the immense profit and revenue from the sales. The workers are paid hourly, so it does not matter how many millions that the company makes in a year. Therefore, in order for the working class to be able to survive, they must work their whole lives just to keep themselves afloat in our economic system- capitalism only favors of the upper class.

Since capitalism is always in favor of the upper class, anyone who is apart of the middle or working class begins to see a form of alienation between them and their society. The stronger a capitalist economy is, the more alienated a person can be and feel from society. According to Marx, “the worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever-cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally” (Marx 71).

One’s freedom is also at jeopardy when a lack of funds is present. Since the meaning of freedom and money is the power to do things and obtain commodities without restraints, the lack

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