Bourgeoisie

Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: It has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other -- bourgeoisie and proletariat. -- the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered

The bourgeoisie made up about 8 percent of the population, which is about two million people. 20-25 percent of the land was owned by them. Types of people in the bourgeoisie included bankers, merchants, industrialists, and professional people like doctors, writers, and lawyers. They were not happy with what the nobles were capable of doing, but instead of abolishing them, some became nobles. They were upset with the monarchical system because it was based on ideas of an old and rigid social order

which are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie owned the product, and the means of production are distribution and the profit. Then, there is the proletariat also known as laborers these are the people that typically did not have the resources to invest in mass production. The only thing they could sell was their labor. Marx was a staunch supporter of the proletariat. He believed that the proletariat gains let up last much in a capitalist system, and all the bourgeoisie benefited a

exist, the bourgeoisie and proletariat. The bourgeoisie are the powerful or those who in charge or production

Manifesto by explaining the difference between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie, also known as the “modern capitalist,” can be considered the government we have today in our society. They are the one’s who provide jobs for the “working class,” also known as the proletariats. The proletariats do not have the funds necessary to produce products so they sell their services as labor in order to live. When Marx states, “the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself, “(478)

we can see two distinct classes battling out as well. These two classes are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. According to Karl Marx in “The Communist Manifesto”, the battle will end “either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes” (Marx 8). Marx argues that in the end the proletariat would remain because the bourgeoisie are unstable and the bourgeoisie unknowingly armed the proletarians to rebel. To understand the arguments and theories

on the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. Throughout the text Marx focuses on the divide between the two classes, and the impact it had on society. Marx “the history all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” Before the bourgeoisie rose to power, Feudal society was the dominant social system in which the upper class provided land and protection for the working class. Eventually the feudal society could not keep up with the growing demand of the market and the bourgeoisie arose

class struggles: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. Bourgeoisie is the higher class who hires people and own the surplus value, which is the left-over profit. The Bourgeoisie exploits the working class for their own profit. The Proletariat is the working class, individuals that sells their labor. The Proletariat becomes the instruments of labor. The mode of production is the social arrangement of the productive forces within a society. There is a small group of owners, the Bourgeoisie, that controls the

the three main ideas of The Communist Manifesto. The first idea is the struggle between class divisions, the bourgeoisie and the proletariats, how the bourgeoisie came to dominate society. The second idea is how the bourgeoisie exploited various mediums through means of production and came to bring about the industrial revolution and how the proletariats united to overthrow the bourgeoisie. The final idea is how the communists work together with the proletariats towards a common goal of abolishing

German philosopher, saw this inequality growing between what he called "the bourgeoisie" and "the proletariat" classes. The