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Bourgeois Working Class

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Lucács concluded that the working class to be the savior that can help us rebel against capitalism, but despite having several economic crises in the United States, the working class has yet to fulfill their “destiny”. The problem, I believe, is multi-leveled: 1) the reproduction of the bourgeois thought, 2) the notion of theodicy, 3) the lack of sociological imagination, 4) over-specialization, and 5) the unwillingness of sacrifices. We all are guilty of reproducing the bourgeois thought. The bourgeois thought is the thinking “for" capitalism. We are taught to think for the bourgeois class through the process of socialization. Schools are factories that produce the future proletariat, the future working class. We learned the importance of punctuality, to speak only when spoken to (teacher choose which students with their hands up to talk), to succumb to the authoritative figures, and we were taught to expect punishment whenever we …show more content…

We do not have the notion of connecting individual to the public. Failure to make the connection between individual and the public is the failure to “see the bigger picture". We lack the framework to understand that we, the working class, are all being oppressed by the same force; that our individual issues might be connected to the broad society. We focus on the differences of our skin tone, gender, and sexual orientation, so much so that we have failed to realize, as the economy operates as the base of all activities and relations, class difference between the bourgeois and the proletariat operates at a macro, micro, and mezzo level. We differentiate because we don’t take into account of the objectivity reality. Not only are we not focusing the real threat, the continuous oppression from capitalism, the proletariats have also been separated by their differences in appearances, orientations, and religious beliefs. This further dissipates our ability to revolt against the

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