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Proletariat Class As A Sociological Analysis

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this idea through the creation of “religious and political illusions” to keep the working classes below them. Through the creation of these religious ideas and political ideologies the bourgeois formed the proletariat class, which happens to be the majority of the world. The proletariat class is viewed by the bourgeois as a group of inferiors laboring to gain a small percentage of capital to survive within the unfair society built by the bourgeois. Since the proletariat are forced to work for the bourgeois in order to survive they are only aiding the bourgeois in their quest of self-interest to expand their wealth, land ownership and political power. But as the modern bourgeois continue to modernize ways of producing goods through machines the pay wages of the proletariat workers will decrease because manual labor is no longer needed. But Marx claims the modern bourgeois power is built of an inevitable downfall. The : “Bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production” (page 16) with the need of “a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish conations everywhere.” (page 16) …show more content…

Karl states that in every society there is an oppressed and oppressor, with this the oppressor should be able to guarantee the survival of its “slaves”, the Modern Bourgeois are flawed in that since they can only exist with the constant updates of technology they will deteriorate as a society because when they can no longer update society, the proletariat will be able to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie. The bourgeois main asset of power is the object that will inevitable destroy them as Marx

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