Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Blog 6


Communism Solves All

To most of you the above statement sounds outrageous, but to Karl Marx he truly believed this. He believed in two social classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The role of the bourgeoisie in society was to innovate and make society better. This class was the middle class; their wealth was based off of their property value. Bourgeoisie’s were necessary for improving the country’s portrayal of itself to other nations. By passing on industrialization ideas it made that particular nation seem more prosperous. The proletariat on the other hand was the poor people whose main source of income was labor. They were continuously living in poverty.  

In Marx’s eyes communism would alleviate the proletariat class from poverty. By having the government own all land the bourgeoisie class wouldn’t exist because they wouldn’t have anything to base their wealth off of. 

On the topic of alleviating poverty, I do and don’t believe that donating will solve the rich and poor problem. If rich people are donating to the poor, there still is going to be rich and poor people. The poor need to learn to work and fend for themselves instead of just always taking from the rich. I think Carnegie’s example of dispensing the wealthy’s money while they are alive is a good plan because at least they will be able to see what is being done with their money yet at the same time I don’t think the rich people should have to be responsible for the poor. 

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