{"id":3054,"date":"2014-02-11T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2014-02-11T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T01:27:31","slug":"class-divide-the-bourgeoisie-and-the-proletariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/02\/11\/class-divide-the-bourgeoisie-and-the-proletariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Divide: The Bourgeoisie and The Proletariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Communist Manifesto\u00a0<\/em>by Marx and Engels, I chose the passage in Chapter 1- Bourgeoisie and Proletariat that reads:\u00a0&#8220;Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other \u2014 Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I chose this passage because it speaks about the class divide and struggle that we have encountered in various readings. From the period of Enlightenment, through the French Revolution, Nationalism and Nation Building, and into the Industrial Revolution, there have always been distinct differences between classes and the way they were treated. The manifesto was written with the intention that it could be read by the public, and appeal to a general audience that did not need to be highly educated. This theme relates to what we discussed in the previous class about the writings of Smith, Owen, and Marx. All three of these works address the differences and struggles between classes. This particular passage from the manifesto addresses the same issue. As society progresses and changes, the classes have also changed and have become more divided. Marx says that the Bourgeoisie must become educated about the conditions and poor treatment of the Proletariat, whose only valuable asset is their power to perform labor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Communist Manifesto\u00a0by Marx and Engels, I chose the passage in Chapter 1- Bourgeoisie and Proletariat that reads:\u00a0&#8220;Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/02\/11\/class-divide-the-bourgeoisie-and-the-proletariat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}