Posted by Teresa Gowan on January 25, 2007 05:46 PM|Permalink
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I thought this reading was interesting because it gave a new prospective on how the middle class shaped society. I thought that the middle class was simply just that: in the middle of society. Marx gave a new prospective on this. He started out by saying how society was first run, how there were the oppressors and the oppressed, no middle. The middle class changed that by adding new classes and splitting up the old classes. It seemed as though the middle class also brought a new ego in that they "pitilessly tore asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors', and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest..." Despite the "ego", the middle class also brought about positive change in the technological industry: "...has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." So through this new form of technology and industry, the middle class connected people, which is a contridiction to the privious thought: that they separated people.
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I thought this reading was interesting because it gave a new prospective on how the middle class shaped society. I thought that the middle class was simply just that: in the middle of society. Marx gave a new prospective on this. He started out by saying how society was first run, how there were the oppressors and the oppressed, no middle. The middle class changed that by adding new classes and splitting up the old classes. It seemed as though the middle class also brought a new ego in that they "pitilessly tore asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors', and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest..." Despite the "ego", the middle class also brought about positive change in the technological industry: "...has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." So through this new form of technology and industry, the middle class connected people, which is a contridiction to the privious thought: that they separated people.
Abha
Posted by: Abha | January 26, 2007 01:56 PM