Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Karl Marx (Katharine Yan)

Shifting jobs overseas will only make the factory owners and entrepreneurs wealthier, creating even more of a difference between the bourgeois and proletariat classes. It will spread the misery of the working class to other countries, increasing resentment towards the wealthy. It is unfair that one group will benefit from another's hardships. The bourgeois will become more prosperous if they take advantage of workers overseas that have low wages and bad working conditions. This just shows how unjust the social structure is, with one class thriving and another suffering. If we really want change that will improve the lives of everyone, we need to establish a classless society. Everyone will be equal in this communist society. Similar to how wages will not differ from country to country, some people will not receive more benefits than others once communism has spread throughout the world. There will be no divisions amongst the people that determine the quality of their lives. Shifting jobs overseas is not what is best for all of the people in our society, and it certainly is not justified. 

1 comment:

  1. The working class is divided by geography and competition with one another. This hinders their ability and possibility to unite as a single body and rise up against the bourgeois. By shifting jobs overseas, workers from other countries will be able to stand on common grounds with the workers of England and they will no longer be separated by geography or competition. The proletariats will be united by unfair wages and horrid working conditions and rise against the oppression of the bourgeois.

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