The Society Is Flawed

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Marx speaks of this saying, "Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class"(27). With this in mind, some perspective on the society of Marx�s time is vital.
Karl Heinrich Marx, a German economist, philosopher, and revolutionist, was born May 5, 1818 in Trier Germany, to Jewish parents. Faced with anti-Semitism, they converted to Christianity, partly to preserve Heinrich�s, Karl�s father, a Jewish lawyer, job in the Prussian state. Karl, himself, was baptized in the evangelical church
Georg Hegel (1770-1831) was the dominant intellectual influence throughout Germany and the university when young Marx entered the University of Berlin in 1835. His [Hegel] idea was that reality is not fixed and static, but changing and ...

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which during this time the industrial revolution is taking place, a massive movement away from small farms, businesses operated out of homes, small shops on the corner, and the like. Instead, machines are mass-producing products in giant factories, with underpaid workers. No longer do people need to have individual skills. Rather, it is only necessary that they can keep the machines going, and do small, repetitive work. The lower working class can no longer eke out a tolerable existence in their own pursuits, but are lowered to working inhumane hours in these factories. This widens the rift between the upper and lower class-called bourgeois and proletariat, until they are essentially two ...

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