Bourgeoisie Vs Proletariat

While transitioning from the Feudal system, history formed a path that led us to the

Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie was a class of modern capitalist. They were the

owners of the means of economic production and employment. They were the masters,

employers of the wage laborer; the Proletariat. The laborers had no means of production on their

own, they no longer owned the tools, and they were reduced to and forced into selling their labor

in order to live. The development of industry and a capitalist system promoted and perpetuated

the separation in wealth. And even though the workers were able to produce more and more,

their increased productivity did not mean increased wages. Laborers lost their sense of self

Moreover, this wealth is basically produced for the wealthy shop owners, the landowners, the non-laborers. Marx says the worker becomes a cheap commodity the more he produces. This point is exemplified in Marx’s writings about the objectification of labor. The results of the labor, or product of the laborer, was becoming more important than the laborer, the person, the humans. The worker became a slave

to his product, a product that does not belong to him nor will he enjoy the fruits of this labor, the owner will. There is a loss of reality when the wage earned from the labor becomes all important in order to take care of himself, especially when it is barely enough to sustain a person. Meanwhile, as Marx explains it, the more value the worker creates the less valuable the laborer

is. On the other hand, the owners build palaces or enjoy fancy food and culture. The relationship

of the worker to production is estranged and unsatisfying. They do not own the product, have no

title for producing it and do not reach a state of happiness with their product when being

Marx would say this makes the labor a stranger to his productions and robs them of their humanity. Our connection to nature, to our own essence, is lost when the worker is not connected to what he has produced. There is something righteously

human to use something nature gives us and create something from it with our hearts and minds.

There seems to be no rewards in this forced labor except for basic survival. Sadly, the consumers

are blind to the laborer that produced their product. This is capitalism. In the Marx Engels

writings, we can see how capitalism aids in workers alienation from the product of his labor.

From my understanding, nothing is his. He can have it in his hands laboring all day, and then in

an instant it is out the door to the person (owner) that paid for the goods. Goods that the worker

often cannot afford for himself And so it goes with anything produced, day after day.

If Marx was alive in 2017 he may say capitalism has turned laborers into machines. And

from what I have read of him, he would say their labor still, belongs to the masters. Marx was

expressing the loss in a sense of ownership, of self, in a product was gone. The creation of life