Blog #6

1. What is the economic condition of the bourgeoisie? What is the economic condition of the proletariat?

The economic condition of the Bourgeoise is developed. They are the people who are very wealthy and who own things. The proletariat economic condition is still developing. These are the people who own nothing but produce wealth from their work. 

2. How does the expanding world market for goods affect national identity?

The expanding of the world market for goods affects the national identity by allowing the markets and demand to grow. The modern industry is what has made the world market today. The bourgeoisie developed, increased capital, and push others during the middle ages.

3. What benefits does Marx expect communism to provide the proletariat?

Every victory is a victory for the bourgeoisie, sometimes for the proletariat as well. Communism is a class-based system, and people are rewarded based on their skills and needs. With the increase in industry profits, it gives more work to the proletariat. The increase in work enables more jobs and opportunities for the proletariat. An increase in work gives the prolateit a chance to get paid for their skills. "But with the development of industry the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows and it feels that strength more. The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat and more and more equalized, in proportion as machinery, obliterates all distinctions of labor, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level." (Matrix) The immediate aim of the communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeoisie of supremacy. (Matrix)

Carnegie ends his essay by saying that he thought that obeying the dictates of his Gospel of Wealth

would someday solve the problem of the rich and the poor and bring “Peace on earth, among men

Good-Will” (para. 24). Do you think that wealthy people should follow Carnegie’s example? Bill

Gates, who recently quoted from Carnegie’s essay, has left his post at Microsoft and is devoting

himself to giving away his wealth through his foundation. Do you feel such activity will “solve

the problem of the Rich and the Poor” (para. 24)?

I believe to follow Carnegie's example would be nice, and would definitely solve the problem if the reach and poor. This would bring some "peace on earth" among men but it wouldn't solve everything. Gates giving away his wealth through his foundation still helps, but wouldn't ultimately solve the issues of rich and poor.