Week 3 - Post 6

Marx believes capitalism is immoral because it puts proletariat citizens at a disadvantage compare with the bourgeoisies and the upper class. He believe that the capitalist system benefits the bourgeoisies, people who buys labor, and harms the proletarians, those who sell their land, power, and labor. Capitalism is based on private ownership of businesses and with the goal to defeat all opponents in order to generate more profit. This threatens the proletarians because they have less money to start out with, which yields fewer opportunities to fight against the bourgeoisies.

Through out history, the constant struggle between economically dominant class and the working class in capitalism has shown that capitalism favors the economically dominant. An uneven economical distribution is in capitalism, where everyone has different living standards, and many live unfortunate lives. Societal values, especially values of the bourgeoisies, begin to shift from common daily necessities to extraneous luxuries and money. The bourgeoisies own majority of the money, this means a few members of society controls majority of wealth. The Bourgeoisies commanded the proletarians to work under low wages, the proletarians must accept since they need to survive on money. The bourgeoisies also mass produce everything, making proletarians’ craftsmanship useless. Under this system, there is an economical food chain, where rich oppress the poor, and poor oppress the poorer.

Marx’s ideal moral society is a utopian society, where everyone owns exactly the same amount of wealth so there is no division of class by economical means. The proletarians will be richer, and bourgeoisies will distribute their wealth, so there’s an absolute economical balance in all members of society. Everyone will not own property, and no form of hierarchy will exist in this utopian society. This would not only solve the problem of uneven wealth distribution, also eliminate the need for economical competition and any oppression between classes.