Karl Marx's Illusion Of The Working Class
If Marx were alive, he would rebuke the mechanisms of unions and governmental regulations because it gives an illusion of false power for the working class. Marx states that within political practice, it is in the best interest to stay ‘against working class’, but he gives examples of how the bourgeoisie adjusts to current situations. He speaks of a “new class of petty bourgeoisie” in modern society that fluctuates its individual citizens between the two social classes, through competition, therefore limiting any chance of uprising. I believe that the capitalistic men, who are also elected to our governments by the working class (which is another illusion in on itself), compromised to cleaner working conditions and higher wages to allow unions
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Many industrial companies in first world countries saw wages sky rocketed to a decent amount for the worker, leaving two options for the capitalist; Raise prices on products to make up the difference, which would unevenly unfold across all markets at an unknowingly rate of time, or find an impoverish nation(s) to manufacture the same product at perhaps lower wages and number of workers. Many of these outsource nations have no regulations to protect the worker. If any work lack productivity, there are millions more willing to replace that person. Capitalist have no sympathy. Their main goal is to exploit the working class to gain capital, a product which requires per Marx, all members of society. So why is it that few benefit from this system? Marx details it very unfair for the proletariat to continue to be treated this way. No matter what the bourgeoisie promise to the proletariats, whether through unions or lawsuits, the proletariats should rise up and over throw the leading bourgeoisie and vanquish any class system. Communism is wishful thinking, but for now the capitalist have the upper
Many industrial companies in first world countries saw wages sky rocketed to a decent amount for the worker, leaving two options for the capitalist; Raise prices on products to make up the difference, which would unevenly unfold across all markets at an unknowingly rate of time, or find an impoverish nation(s) to manufacture the same product at perhaps lower wages and number of workers. Many of these outsource nations have no regulations to protect the worker. If any work lack productivity, there are millions more willing to replace that person. Capitalist have no sympathy. Their main goal is to exploit the working class to gain capital, a product which requires per Marx, all members of society. So why is it that few benefit from this system? Marx details it very unfair for the proletariat to continue to be treated this way. No matter what the bourgeoisie promise to the proletariats, whether through unions or lawsuits, the proletariats should rise up and over throw the leading bourgeoisie and vanquish any class system. Communism is wishful thinking, but for now the capitalist have the upper