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I chose the Bourgeoisie class to focus my analysis on.\u00a0 The Engels, 1888 Edition defines the bourgeoisie class in the footnote as \u201cthe class of modern capitalists, owners of means of social production and employers of wage labour\u201d (The Communist Manifesto, <\/em>14).\u00a0 This class of people are mostly millionaires who own factories and are vital in the process of manufacturing goods for trade.\u00a0 The proletariat class is employed by this class.\u00a0 The proletariats are \u201cthe class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production on their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live\u201d (The Communist Manifesto<\/em>, 14).\u00a0 This proletariat class is employed by the bourgeoisie class.\u00a0 They rely on the bourgeoisie for income and the ability to make a living to feed their families.\u00a0 According to Marx, the relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats is one of oppression.\u00a0 Marx claims, \u201cThe modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms.\u00a0 It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones\u201d (The Communist Manifesto,<\/em> 14).\u00a0 In order for the bourgeoisie class to excel it has to oppress another class.\u00a0 In this case, the proletariat class is forced to work for low wages in the factories, while the factory owners profit.<\/p>\n

The material interests of the bourgeoisie class are money and power.\u00a0 This money is obtained through free trade.\u00a0 The possibility for this new trade occurred because, \u201cThe discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie\u201d (The Communist Manifesto,<\/em> 15).\u00a0 The colonies in America allowed for a greater expanse of civilization to trade with.\u00a0 The markets created massive demand and advancements in technology spurred greater production from factories.\u00a0 Steam and machinery allowed for faster and greater production from factories.\u00a0 \u201cThe place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois\u201d (The Communist Manifesto, <\/em>15).\u00a0 This modern industry that the modern bourgeois controlled, established the world market.\u00a0 This led to an extension of the reaches of industry and the ability of the bourgeoisie to increase their capital further.<\/p>\n

The role of the bourgeoisie did not fit into the existing political system.\u00a0 The modern market did not fit into the feudal system of industry.\u00a0 The bourgeoisie \u201c\u2026has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his \u2018natural superiors\u2019, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous \u2018cash payment\u2019\u201d (The Communist Manifesto,<\/em> 15).\u00a0 The bourgeoisie was pursuing free trade.\u00a0 \u201cThe bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property.\u00a0 It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property into a few hands\u201d (The Communist Manifesto,<\/em> 17).\u00a0 The bourgeoisie had a lot of power in this new society and replaced the feudal society with free competition along with a new constitution.<\/p>\n

The bourgeoisie did not fit into the original feudal system.\u00a0 This system was holding back the productive forces of the bourgeoisie.\u00a0 The creation of free competition was necessary for this class to continue to expand.\u00a0 The new markets would not be attainable without a new political system.\u00a0 Marx claims that the bourgeoisie system was not completely unlike the feudal system.\u00a0 This new system still required another class of people to suffer in order for the bourgeoise to succeed.\u00a0 But this political action was definitely necessary for the bourgeoise to continue their economic growth.\u00a0 The way in which this new system caused increasing oppression of the proletariat class also aided the means of production.\u00a0 As innovation increased and machines were introduced into factories, jobs were replaced.\u00a0 Skilled jobs that had once been well-paying were now replaced by a machine.\u00a0 Instead of hiring someone to do these tasks, you now only had to hire someone to oversee the machine that would perform them.\u00a0 Because of this, there was less of a demand for skilled workers.\u00a0 The lower part of the lower class, \u201c\u2026sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production\u201d (The Communist Manifesto,<\/em> 18).\u00a0 Men are replaced with women and children and pay decreases as working hours increase.\u00a0 However, the political interests that helped the bourgeoisie also ended up destroying it as well.\u00a0 Because of lower wages and increased numbers, the proletariat class fights back against the bourgeoisie creating unions and demanding equality and change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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