OBE #1 Outsourcing Bourgeois (revised)
Historically speaking the bourgeois has revolutionized the speed to need. This would not be problematic however; the general process involves global exploitation of humanity. Capitalistic-minded bourgeois is especially infamous for revolutionizing mass consumption of material goods through unapologetically exploiting humanity to serve self-interests. Modern industry, past as well as present, typically parachutes into unsuspecting areas that are naive to the events that shadow world-markets. At glance, industries appear to offer attractive perks to a sinking community. In greater terms, “It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst.” (225)
Capitalists justify exploiting humanity on the premise that weak lands will become nurtured as a result of their economic opportunities. Poor people would now be rescued by new earning powers. The point I’m trying to convey here is that; the bourgeois revolutionized how to brain wash a community into thinking they are going to receive greater economic opportunities. The problem is that, historically speaking, the capitalists (or bourgeois) demand outrageous work expectations from a populations who hold entirely different values and belief systems.
The bourgeois’ belief is that they’re gifting a favor to communities through granting new jobs, opportunities or progressive changes. This sort of hypocrisy feeds to human exploitation because “barbarian countries” already have a system of producing agriculture and social content. Realistically with modern industry brings political centralization which empowers the bourgeois to literally own the working class, the direct origin of exploiting humanity. As industries popularize manufactures unite to monopolize production by robbing small farming communities of their success, further dividing classes and imposing new concepts that generally contradict existing ideologies within the population.
Exploitation of this kind is best described, “…It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adapt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e. become bourgeois themselves.” (225)
The initial intent of the bourgeois may not have been to breed problems within society however; inevitably it does by imposing new rules and restrictions that undermine interests of the community.
In addition, the bourgeois has proved to be historical by revolutionizing political power through the veins of capitalism. Because of their fiscal power, they have the means to buy or even create governmental power. The most common method of seizing power is through their distribution weapons to specific groups of people who have no merit to control a population, but do so under the influences of the bourgeois to secure their property.
“The bourgeois keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands.” (225)
What that statement means to me is that, as power becomes increasingly centralized, the people’s interests become decreasingly significant. On a personal note, it makes me ill is that the bourgeois, also known as our capitalist friends, have completely run out of people to exploit domestically. They’re frantically globe trotting to foreign lands on a man hunt for fresh communities to taint, or rather introduce production and industry. As a result, it’s not uncommon for me to receive phone calls at 4am from India to update me on promotional offers for my VISA card. As a card holder, I have a hard time believing having IT departments in places like Dhaka or Calcutta serve my best interest or the people employed by these companies.
Comments
Well put! As you said, "The bourgeois’ belief is that they’re gifting a favor to communities through granting new jobs, opportunities or progressive changes." and if that's the case, if they're so giving, why don't they pay foreign workers even close to what U.S. workers in the same positons would be paid? They say that their wage is comparable in the economy of the countries they exploit, but if even just their secondary aim is to help boost another country's economy wouldn't it help more to pay higher wages? The benevolence arguement is absolutely laughable for many reasons!
Posted by: Tavia | January 30, 2007 09:54 AM
China and India: two countries made of proletarians who work for almost all the bourgeoise across the world... If Marx was right, the new world revolution should start there.
Posted by: Pedro Llanos | June 3, 2007 07:49 PM