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    Frederick Douglass and his importance to the abolitionist message cannot be understated. He rose above his shackled station in the world and became “unmanageable” (Jacobus 330). He aspired to be more than a slave, emerged to educational levels that they’d been beaten to forget, and he gave them a voice (Jacobus 332) . One of the most striking messages in Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave therefore is his adept narration of the relationship between slave and

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    illustrations of class struggles between the oppressors and oppressed. Some examples include the “lord and serf”, “freeman and slave”, and “patrician and plebeian” to name a few. Marx suggests that the current struggle in society is between the bourgeoisie and proletariat. The bourgeoisies are the class of owners or the ruling class. What separates the bourgeoisies from the rest is that they have private property. According to Thoreau, private property is that which produces capital. It is buildings

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    exemplifies the corruption in the upper class due to their suppressive nature towards the plorient class. The upper class or bourgeoisie such as the monarchy in Hamlet believe their stance in the social ladder subjects them to all the power. In various cases throughout history the bourgeoisie ruled at the same level as God. For instance, Claudius showcases the abuse of power the bourgeoisie exudes onto the proletariats when he confesses to murdering his brother to obtain “[his] crown… and [his] queen”, which

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    social ranks which were commoner and royal were developed to a relation of commoner and bourgeoisie in the industrial development period. The movie “it” appeared to be one of those kind of movies. With one brave, lovely, and surprisingly talented woman is a main character of the movie. Her name is Betty, and she meets majorly two gentlemen who are already get used to live as bourgeoisie. One day, one of bourgeoisie man found the word and meaning of ‘it’ from the newspaper. “Peculiar quality which some

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    of those who exercise their ‘dictatorship’ in this society because they have the instruments of production within their control.” For Marx there were two distinct classes in society, the ruling class, the owners of the means of production, the “Bourgeoisie” and the ruled class, the “Proletariat”. The quote, with which I begin this essay, clearly explains the Marxist view of what law is in a given society. For Marxists

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    multiple views of Karl Marx’s idea of communism presented in this novel, including his radical ideas that the proletariats should unite and revolt against the bourgeoisie. In the novel it has been stated that in order for the proletariats to change their current state, the proletariats need to form a union, revolt against the bourgeoisie, and eventually establish self government. Through the Marx’s lens you will see how communism guides through all the oppressions the Joad family faces in this novel

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    consumerism mocks Flaubert bourgeoisie need for the pleasure of buying things. This bourgeois

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    topic about the proletarian revolution. The author Marx and Engels claim that the struggle in today’s world is between two great social classes, the “bourgeoisie”, the capitalists who own the means of production and the “proletariat”, the workers employed by the bourgeoisie (p.5). They believe that the proletariat will ultimately overthrow the bourgeoisie through revolution and reach a classless society (p.9, p.13). To achieve this goal, the communists who pursue the common interests of all proletarians

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    Roman’s, however, enforced new classes with new conditions and struggles for the oppressed individuals, in place of the old policies (p.15). In the Communist Manifesto, Marx noted the two classes of his society were the bourgeoisie and proletarians (p.16). Quite simply, the bourgeoisie, where the capitalists were the enforcers and owners of the

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    society is the history of class struggles” is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto. Published in 1848, the political pamphlet exercised the belief that communism would dispel capitalism and perpetual class struggles caused by the bourgeoisie, which had remained unchanged as modes of production evolved. Stemming from its origin “common,” communism proposes the idea of a post-capitalist, classless society where its property is publicly owned and its means of production provide a stable

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