... In Marx's time society had split into two major classes termed the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois represents the rich ruling ruling class, and the proletariat the poor working class. The bourgeoisie developed from the old feudal society with the increase of commerce, navigation, and industry that the discovery of America ... a new supply of wage labor for fresh exploitation" (Marx 53). All the capital goes to the bourgeoisie which they use to exploit. In the new communist society capital will be converted into common property. Every member of society will get a piece of it....

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... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." (pg. 490) The main objective of communists and the proletariat is the elimination of private property. Such materialism keeps them enslaved. (pg. 484) Bourgeoisie or capitalistic economics requires ... owners of the means of production to give workers enough to ensure their survival. (pg. 485) The existence of bourgeois property relies on its unequal distribution. The only way the proletariat can free itself ...

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... members of the working class commit crime. Gordon argues that crime is a rational response to the capitalist society which surrounds everyone, he pin points America for this to be particularly true, since he argues that society due to its very nature (as Marxist perceive it) is a "dog eat dog ... " society it can be seen as a rational response, he justifies this point by observing America's poor and the welfare system they have in place. The American welfare system is based on monetarist principles, which states that if welfare is to high it is ... Keynesian economy advocates a minimum ...

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... and Weber to better explain social change. Karl Marx was a nineteenth century praxis philosopher whose theories explicitly outlined both the means and the end of social change. He believed in methodological materialism, which means that material reality is the basis of society, economy, and politics. He thought that existence determined consciousness. At the time Marx was alive the industrial revolution ... ideas by introducing other units like status groups and political parties. Weber argued that Marx was too broad in his assumptions of classes. For example, a Caucasian and a Latino f...

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