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            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. .
             Marx says that 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).


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