Class synopsis 3/25/2011

Class synopsis

3/25/2011

Today’s class we had a quiz and watched a film that reviewed Karl Marx Marx and his ideas of the Bourgeois vs. the Proletariate. The quiz covered questions from the specific measures called for the Communist party. We talked about the abolition of private property in land to public purposes. This raised the conversation of privacy, Could someone just walk into your home and act as though it is everyones property. WE then went to talk about the two classes, the bourgeois and the proletariate differ. The bourgeois use the proletariate to fuel their capitalist, materialistic, and upper class society with their hard working labor products. The Proletariate are a working class reduced by the bourgeois to just producers that have no relationship with their products.He believes that the history of the world has been a history of class struggles between the producers and consumers. The only purpose for the Proletariate was for monetary value, making the proletariate make product to survive, not for the point of making product. The movie we watched was an summary of Marxism. Using the illustration of old cartoons, it showed exactly how the bourgeois are dominating society with their capitalistic ideas and how slowly the bourgeois tactics spread through out the world in other countries for the means of monetary value. It showed the epidemic of overgrowth of production int he bourgeois society. The Proletariate class was slowly forced out from the production part of society by machinery, making the proletariate class almost usless. This moved on to the proletariat forming a union, “Workers of the world, Unite!”. What is good in Communism is that it will not make the rich richer; rather it would eliminate the bourgeois and proletariate class making an almost equal balance in society between the rich and poor. It would make it so that there is no one ultimately poor, while there would be no one who is very rich. In the end society would no longer be compatible with the bourgeois because the it is “unfit to rule society with its incompetence to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery.”(1002) After the video of the cartoon illustration of the Manifestation of communism, we watched a short clip of Glenn Beck who had a guess speaker, Sam Webb, the leader of the Communist party in the US. From the amount of the video we saw, It was interesting and slightly amusing to see how Glenn Beck cut off Sam any time he tried to explain anything about Marxism or communism.