The widening gap between Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.
In this essay I will outline the emerging difference between the very rich (Bourgeoisie) and the very poor (Proletariat) . In the Communist Manifesto, it describes these classes as one being superior over the other, or in other words, one class acting as the oppressor and the other acting as the oppressed. In society through the ages, it was classes fighting amongst themselves, but nowadays, its two classes separating further apart. The Bourgeoisie are simply, bosses, owners etc. They are earning buckets of money. On the other side, the Proletariat, are the poor people who are barely able to make a decent pay and somewhat are struggling to survive. They are working class people, but as new machines are being developed in the workplace, they are struggling to keep their jobs. I am going to reference my work from books and the internet as that they will be the assets in writing this essay. In today’s world, the Bourgeois would be like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
The Bourgeoisie has created massive cities, has greatly increased the urban population when compared to the rural, and has therefore rescued a considerable part of the population from the madness of rural life. For the Bourgeoisie, it must change constantly in the present in order to exploit the modern markets. As a result of their actions, every business if pressured into globalization, and if this is not done, then they fall behind. As a result, the Bourgeoisie ‘create the world after their own image’ (Karl Marx , 84). The proletarians are themselves commodities and are likewise subject to the changes of the market. And as with any other service, businesses want to minimize their cost of production, in this case, the wage that must be paid in order to make use of the worker's labour power.
As slaves to their bourgeois superiors, the proletariat is in a constant state of resentment with the...