Karl Marx and Social Change

Karl Marx’s basic theory says that there are two major classes within Capitalist society, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie is defined by the fact that it owns the means of production and the proletariat by the fact that it must sell its labor time to the bourgeoisie in order to earn a wage that allows it to survive. He argues that this conflict between the two classes causes the making of commodities for profit, which he argued were products of labor for use and exchange. Marx discussed that this struggle between the classes not only creates an obvious subordinate superior relationship between the two, but also creates an aliena...