Comparison Of Wage Labour And Capital, By Karl Marx

The common term “revolution” in the culture of the western world emerged due to the vast social and political changes brought by industrialization in the Western world in the late 19th century. Specially, the progress of social and political changes was being stifled by economic inequality between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Karl Marx talks about the class struggle in his writing entitled Wage Labour and Capital. The conflict between the poor (proletariat) and the rich (bourgeoisie) raises a problem: what is the nature of this conflict that makes people act in a certain way (super-ego) that Sigmund Freud mentioned in his book Civilization and Its Discontents. Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are two of the most influential thinkers of modern

In the end, the proletariats will have full control of their own lives through the implementation of global revolution, which he believes will result in a classless society. In the last hundred years, the working population has developed to produce another layer: middle class. Marx explained this idea in his writing, “a second and more practical, but less systematic, form of this socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class, by showing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in economical relations, could be of any advantage to them” (Tucker 496). This is a devastating truth of the capitalistic system that the revolution of working class is very difficult to implement. This can be related to relationship between human perception and social

The Divers’ lifestyle is the main element in the story; as family money and social connections change, the dynamics between Dick and Nicole change in as well. As in the book, “Dick had the power of arousing a fascinated and uncritical love. The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He sometimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust (Fitzgerald 29). Dick Diver is morally weak and also has mental issues whose personality could change the dynamics of his relationship. Dick Diver is the man with the ability for romantic wonder that represents American dream from revealing its realities in real life. Nicole is a self made American capitalist that has everything since she was born. She represents the American vision of wealth, youth, and beauty. Dick Diver is an example of a man who is destroyed by the American dream. The fake beauty of American capitalism that is recklessness and has destructive charm that made Dick Diver loss himself. Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful young movie star who is born in America and falls in love with Dick then changed his life. After Dick said, “I’m afraid I’m in love with you, and that’s not the best thing that could happen.” (Fitzgerald 74). It shows that the richest texture of social appearance and the hidden reality of moral ignorance are the powers of fake social perception and