Marx believed that the identity of a social class derived from its relationship to the means of production (as opposed to the notion that class is determined by wealth alone, i.e., lower class, middle class, upper class).
Marx describes several
social classes in capitalist societies, including primarily:
- the proletariat: "those individuals who sell their labour power, (and therefore add value to the products), and who, in the capitalist mode of production, do not own the means of production". According to Marx, the capitalist mode of production establishes the conditions that enable the bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariat due to the fact that the worker's labour power generates an added value greater than the worker's salary.
- the bourgeoisie: those who "own the means of production" and buy labour power from the proletariat, who are recompensed by a salary, thus exploiting the proletariat.
thats all ive gotten so far, because ive spent 5 min on google and i have a huge edgar allen poe lecture i have to do tommorw (grd 12 english
) so tommorw i will explain pure socialism and y its so hard to achieve tommorw, because iots way too long for me to do so i apologize for making a wait
