Explain What The Bourgeoisie

     Marx describes the problem in great detail in the first chapter. He feels there is a problem between the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie were the oppressed class before the French Revolution and he argues that they are now the oppressors. The proletarians are the new working class, which works in the large factory and industries. He says that through mass industry they have sacrificed everything from the old way of religion, employment, to a man’s self worth and replaced it with monetary value. He is mad that the people of ole that use to be upper class such as skills man, trades people, & shopkeepers, are now slipping into the proletarians or working class. He

In this essay I plan to analyze the claim by Karl Marx that the bourgeoisie class produces its own "gravediggers". I will first present a definition of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat classes along with what Marx means by his claim. After discussing Marx's claim and his support I will assert that his claim is false and was based on a false assumption. I will argue that Marx does not allow the possibility of an adaptation on behalf of the bourgeoisie. Furthermore, that Marx contradicts his claim with his own ideologies from his critique of capitalism. Finally, Marx adopts historical determinism to support his view which has proven to be flawed. The claim that the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers is based on circumstantial

Marx's theory on Capitalist exploitation is an incredibly deep theory, but to explain it in a nutshell, it is that the working-class people are improperly compensated for their work. The rich, the higher-ups, they continue to expand their wealth by exploiting the working class, the Capitalist system not only allows but effectively demands that Capitalists increase their wealth, long-term or short-term, whether at the cost of the working-class or not. There are three “values” to take into consideration, the use-value, the exchange-value and the

Analyst: This Document basically displays the hatred towards these manufacturers during this time period. This is due to the unhappy people during this time period because of either lack of safety or unstable working conditions. This could also be due to the lack of education which led to people becoming attracted to communism. However, there was a new found hatred toward capitalism due to the overworking of these people. Marx and Engels saw this new idea as evil and harmful because of they are hogging all the money. However with our 21st century eyes, we can see that the systems is fair.

This onslaught of capitalism directly revolutionized modern industrialism as well as the industrial city. Machines morphed the predominately agricultural nation to a herd of factory and corporate workers. Swarms of people, both native and immigrant, flocked to major cities. “The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth-producing power. The utilization of steam and electricity, the introduction of improved processes and labor saving machinery, the greater subdivision and grander scale of production, the wonderful facilitation of exchanges, have multiplied enormously the effectiveness of labor.”(George, p.20) The major problem with this newfound industrialism was the way in which the workforce was treated. Capitalism was supposed to provide a way out, a way ascend the financial and social staircase, if you worked hard enough. This however was not the case, if you were a loyal, hardworking employee you simply got to keep your job, and if you were in any way injured or incompetent you were fired.

Since the Bourgeoisie control the means of production, their social obligations stem from the betterment of their own class by maintaining the status quo between themselves and the Proletariat, and to this end, the Bourgeoisie are continuously revolutionizing the modes of production so that the workers are constantly dependent on them.

In the following section, I will define terms that Karl Marx used in his works. The term bourgeois is defined as the owners of the means of production. In oppose to bourgeoisie, the proletarian or the wage-earner is defined as “a class of labourers who live only as long as they find work, and who find work only as long as their labour increases capital” (I. Craib, Classical Social Theory, 99). Economic is defined as relating to the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought (Merriam-Webster, 2016). The economic process that we will mainly focus on is capitalism. In a capitalist society, the main goal of any firms is simply to make profits for the owner. In the following essay, I will attempt to explain why do

Engels depicts the Industrial Revolution centralizing capital and people. The people were divided by property owning upper class, the bourgeoisie, and the lower class of working people, the proletariat. The division of these two groups of people grew each day as the Industrial Revolution continued. Engels describes in his Introduction chapter, a barbarous indifference of the working class and capital as the weapon used against them. The bourgeoisie justified social inequality, described by Engels as social murder, as a natural act. Engels wrote, “Population becomes centralized just as

Throughout The Communist Manifesto, Marx expresses the political, economic and social turmoil that were present in their society. During this time period, agriculture production was the main occupation. This resulted in a class struggle between the landowners and the serfs who labored the land. A new, manufacturing class emerged from this conflict called the bourgeoisie. Bourgeoisie changed the focus from agriculture to industrialization and commerce. Having “less dexterity and strength [that] is required in manual labor, [helps] modern industry develop” and prosper throughout society (Marx 131). This more proficient way to produce commodities helped the bourgeoisie control global and domestic trade. They eventually reached a point where they were inhibited by the feudal government and could not progress at the original rate they were going. Resulting from this, the French Revolution occurred and the bourgeoisie demolished the aristocracy that was originally present during this primitive time. Unfortunately, this did not resolve the primary

**FIND OUT WHY, OR FIND OUT HOW TO EXPLAIN WHY** In 19th century England, factory inspectors found interesting things in British factories. There was a large amount of worker exploitation. Factory inspectors found that people were working for long hours. The moments stolen from workers became part of the profit. In this sense, time became a very important source of revenue. There were also cripplingly bad living conditions. There were children, under the appropriate age to work, working. The salary back then (and currently, in some cases) was very minimal. In the Marx reading, there was a paragraph that talked about how “under capitalism, you don’t work on developing yourself, it’s about what your boss wants you to do” or something along those lines. The idea was that to make more money, there would need to be more workers working at all times for little money with no days off. These people working were dying, and it was said that the deaths were “death from simple

As the bourgeois advanced financially, they also gained political influence. They progressed from a once oppressed class to an independent urban republic. As their political influence increased, certain changes became clear. The bourgeois had “torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation (Marx).” This force eventually grew to the point that it was able to force other nations to conform to its values and methods or suffer extinction. As the bourgeois became richer, the proletarians began to suffer more. The balance of property began to shift even more rapidly than before leaving property “concentrated…in a few hands (Marx).” Eventually, the super-efficient production of the manufacturing economy began to take its toll on the bourgeois as well as the proletarians. More goods were produced due to the cheaper costs and ease of manufacture leading to an over-production of goods (Marxism). Over-production became a serious problem, resulting with widespread unemployment of the proletarians, and threats of a revolution on the horizons.

Within The Communist Manifesto, Marx also argues that capitalism has caused individuals to focus too much about money and competing within society. Marx argues that “This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves” (23). People have become so focused about competing for better jobs and better social positions that they have lost touch with the people around them. Rather than pay attention to the needs or problems of others, every person is now focused only on themselves. They are competing for the ideas of money and power that only a few are able to reach. According to Marx, “private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths” (29). Since only a few people are able to control the land and the companies, the workers are forced to slave away after a dream that they will probably never accomplish. The idea is that the bourgeoisie make the dreams of workers seem attainable so that the workers will make the bourgeoisie richer by putting in more effort into their jobs. The characters in The Death of

In regards to the labour-capital relation within a traditional capitalist corporation Marx & Engels (2007) refer to the dialectic between the capitalists (or bourgeoisie) who own the property and the means of production and the laborers (or proletariat) who own no property and are obligated to sell their labour to the bourgeoisie to gain substance. For Marx & Engels, this labour market is inherently fraught with tension, since the interests of the capitalist and labourers are diametrically opposed, and the balance of power between capitalists and labourers tips further in the favour of the capitalists. Because workers have nothing to sell but their labour, the bourgeoisie are able to exploit them by paying them less than the true value created by their labour. Furthermore, because of the unequal positions of capitalist and labourer, labourers must work for someone else- they must do work imposed on them as a means of satisfying the needs of others. As a result, labourers inevitably experience alienation which Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) summarizes as the separation of individuals from the objects they create, which in turn results in one’s separation from other people, from oneself, and ultimately from one’s human nature.

The reason capitalism is inimical to happiness is because the bourgeois control the means of production, which has a detrimental effect on the proletariat financially. The balances of power between the bourgeois and the proletariat are always uneven and place the proletariat at a disadvantage. This imbalance of power alienates the employees; by placing the proletariat in menial role and this creates no room for development in any new skills. The menial position created by the bourgeois limits the proletariat ability to create new proficiencies; this causes the bourgeois business to be profitable. The bourgeois are able to control the growth and development of their employees, which effects the proletariat obtainment of happiness. These menial positions created by the bourgeois are a reflection of the lack of power and control the proletariat face. By the proletariat being demoralized by their superiors, this constant display of abuse takes away from their happiness. The proletariats are forced to sell their labor to survive, and the bourgeois take advantage of this need. The bourgeois are always in charge they create the rules and the proletariats are forced to follow them or become terminated. An example of the abuse of power created by the bourgeois is when employees would have struck in support of their union. The bourgeois organization would continue operation by hiring scabs (Strikebreakers). When hiring a scab, the

Instead, the business owners made choices for them and used the workers for their own rewards. The bourgeoisie were the owners "the formation of the bourgeoisie public sphere was ideological to the extent that it secured the domination of one class over another."3 The problem with the bourgeoisie class was that they saw no wrong in their system because they reasoned it to be the right way. The owners controlled the means of production, but it was the people under them that actually knew what they were doing. The oppressed people were controlled by the oppressors and could not make decisions about the work they did, political matters, or equality in the workplace but held the responsibility of making the businesses successful. There was huge clashing between the workers and the owners because the owners made the choices while the workers were forced to take responsibility for them.