. According to Marx, there are two groups of people existing in each society. The bourgeoisie is seen as the " class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of production and employers of wage labor". The bourgeoisie is a product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange over time. This class is responsible for the tearing apart of families and reduced the family relation to a mere money relation. Marx compares the bourgeoisie as "like a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world which he has called up by his spells" (pg28). The other class, the proletariat, is the modern working class, consisting of a class of laborers who live for work and who find it only if their services help the capital gain of the bourgeoisie. Each person in the working class loses all individual character, often compared to a group of soldiers. Inequalities of wealth in capitalistic societies were directly ba!
sed on ownership of land, buildings, machinery, factories- hence, the means of production. Marx's states, " Differences of age and sex (race) have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labor, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex (race)". Response: Marx's basic theory of class conflict includes the idea that the owners (bourgeoisie) use the working class as a profitable resource. The value of each worker is profit. Differences in age and sex are not seen as a barrier for the workers to survive, rather as a slight cutback for the owners to hold a constant, flowing profit. Both classes have opposing interests. In capitalism, Marx says that there is potential for domination politically, socially, and culturally. . The higher class is able to make the laws and enforce them in order to ensure the continuing pattern of domination. Eventually, however, t...