Class Stratification In Society, By Marx And Engels
According to Marx and Engels the entire history of human society is the history of class stratification and oppression of those who occupy the lowest rung of the social hierarchy. The modern bourgeois society did not eliminate class conflicts; it rather strengthened it turning economic factor and ownership to the main cause of social stratification of people. As a result, class stratification, according to Marx and Engels, in the modern world is increasingly approaching its apogee - the division of society into two great opposing camps - the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
Everything that is included in the bourgeois system of values is translated into economic and trade relations. Family, political and other ideals are simplified and …show more content…
However, this is just the beginning of a long journey to establish communism. Because once the ‘dictatorship’ of the proletariat is installed, the working class will go towards the total abolition of social differences. Ideally, the communist society will not be presented as a structured by class social organism, but as an association of free and equal citizens. Marx and Engels really believed that only in a situation of equality and freedom, when physical and intellectual effort, which a person spends in the normal course of business, returns to him in the form of the final product of his labor, the harmonious coexistence of people could be exercised.
In my view, it is clear that such an understanding of society is utopian. If you look at the experience of the modern communist countries, such as China, we can see that the Chinese version of communism is different from that proposed by Marx and Engels in "The Communist Manifesto". However, this work deserves attention and recognition due to the fact that it offers more than just the removal of the symptoms of social inequality and social injustice, but rather a radical transformation of society according to the communist ideals of equality and
Everything that is included in the bourgeois system of values is translated into economic and trade relations. Family, political and other ideals are simplified and …show more content…
However, this is just the beginning of a long journey to establish communism. Because once the ‘dictatorship’ of the proletariat is installed, the working class will go towards the total abolition of social differences. Ideally, the communist society will not be presented as a structured by class social organism, but as an association of free and equal citizens. Marx and Engels really believed that only in a situation of equality and freedom, when physical and intellectual effort, which a person spends in the normal course of business, returns to him in the form of the final product of his labor, the harmonious coexistence of people could be exercised.
In my view, it is clear that such an understanding of society is utopian. If you look at the experience of the modern communist countries, such as China, we can see that the Chinese version of communism is different from that proposed by Marx and Engels in "The Communist Manifesto". However, this work deserves attention and recognition due to the fact that it offers more than just the removal of the symptoms of social inequality and social injustice, but rather a radical transformation of society according to the communist ideals of equality and