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Bourgeoisie and Proletariat

Bourgeoisie

In John Steinbeck's

The Pearl

'As industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages'

-Marx and Engels

Proletariat

'As the bourgeoisie [has] developed, in the same proportion the proletariat, the modern working class, [has] developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who only find work only so long as their labour increases capital.'

-Marx and Engels

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cat, Elle, Racheal & Tori

  • The Pearl - John Steinbeck
  • The communist manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich engels

Marxism

To conclude...

A worldwide view of society, which focuses heavily on class relations and societal conflict.

...and...

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'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.'

-Marx and Engels

Bibliography

Marx, Karl, and Engels, Friedrich, ‘The Communist Manifesto’, found in Leitch, Vincent B., Cain, William E., Finke, Laurie, Johnson, Barbara, and McGowan, John, The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism Second Edition (New York City: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010) pp.657-660

Marx, Karl, and Engels, Friedrich, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Marxist.org, 2010) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm [accessed March 9, 2015]

Steinbeck, John, The Pearl (London: Penguin Classics, 2014)

Understanding the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in marxism

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