... and capitalism have dictated the way of life for the general public. The wealthy keep their money and lead the good life style while the poor work for the rich. This is the reality of the capitalist society that surrounded Karl Marx in ... not really have an idea of what the whole product is. In the case of an assembly line worker building a car they would not even make enough money to purchase the end product, which further alienates them from it. Workers are also alienated from their co-workers because of the unnatural way they are made to ... produced more and more his value goes dow...

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... . Marx developed two different classes, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. These two classes did not in any way share a common interest. The Bourgeoisie wanted to lower salary in order to increase their profit. On the other hand the Proletariat wanted to raise wages in order to improve their living conditions. Marx realized that because capitalism could not make both classes happy ... that class struggle must be the active force behind history. Marx's theory on class struggle was basically a "challenge, defeat, change" system. When the aristocracy had money because they owned land, the...

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... the bourgeoisie are a big part of how a country in capitalist form of government develop (475). The bourgeoisie use and abuse the capitalist government for their good, to deepen their pockets, increase their property and causing class system to mover further apart. "increased its capital, and pushed into the backround every class handed down from the middle ages" (475). It is as ... to support their family's, trying to give what the bourgeoisie has. "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation"(476). Th...

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... of the western society because the Capitalists were mainly concerned about increasing their own capital while increasing the pressure on the Proletariats which led to an enormous increase in the income gap and also an increase in the number of oppressed Proletariats which encouraged them to revolute against the Bourgeois and thus as Marx Said "The Bourgeois produced its own grave diggers ... the strong barriers that the Bourgeois had created between themselves and the Proletariats is Revolution. Proletariats must revolute against the Capitalists in order to prevent the accumulation of p...

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... members of organized labor. Many only have a precarious hold on middle-class status and tended to be less concerned with imitating upper-class culture and behavior than with making enough money to sustain a middle-class life-style. The middle class are differentiated primarily on the basis of the attitudes and values they held and on their origin in the social system ... because their families already know them. For instance, on the video "People Like Us" the rich throw parties for only people who have a lot of money. They usually only socialize with people who make as much money as the...

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... in some strange cases there are times when moving up in class is a little bit easier for some. For example, famous athletes, musicians, singers, artists, and actors make so much money that it shoots them up the hierarchy ladder in very little time. However, on the realistic view of it all, the chances of that happening to someone is very slim ... to become experts with that new information. As long as there is still a need for more information the rich will become richer and the numbers of the upper classes will increase. As long as there is still a yearning for knowledge, there is stil...

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... class, the wage laborer, and the oppressed. With work constantly being replaced by the machinery produced by the bourgeoisie, the proletariat must struggle to find a decent job and earn enough money to survive in the bourgeois society. The machine has stripped away from the hands of the proletariat the need for skill or talent in his work. A man becomes an extension ... all right of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. A national bank with an exclusive monopoly of credit. 6. Centralized communication and mass transportation controlled by the state...

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