The development of the bourgeoisie as a class was accompanied by a series of political developments. With the development of Modern Industry and the world-market, the bourgeoisie has gained exclusive political sway. ... Due to the development of machines and the division of labor, the proletarian's work has simply become an appendage of a machine. ... Workers would be able to seize the state most probably through revolution, but possibly through political action, in order to change the system of government to reflect their needs. ...

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Class is concerned with a society's economic structure which encompasses the systems of wealth creation and distribution while power entails how politics is expressed. ... He adds that class separation is also evident in politics in that political leaders seek to appeal to the lower and middle class populations to obtain more supporters. ... They work in poor conditions characterized by safety risks – injuries from knives and machines, fogginess and visibility problems, and respiratory problems caused by fumes, in addition to physical strain and sexual harassment for female workers....

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Like Marx argues, due to the economic recession, the government of Greece increased bailout programs and tax programs to keep their political power and to hide economic and political errors. ... These conflicts are related to political conflicts because they can change policies or social systems. ... The necessary consequence of this was political centralization.... With machinery developments, capitalism leads to labor divisions and workers become like machine appendages who work for the bourgeoisie (Marx and Engels 2000:8). ... In Modern Times, a Charles Chaplin movie, people are displayed a...

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Marx believed that for any current political power to be sustained, it has only due to developmental factors. ... He began a deduction of these powers to determine political and/or economical correlation to class-structure including the relations. ... According to Lynch these means are "types of tools, machines, and institutions and forms of labor found in society" (lynch, 25). ... Marx claimed that the way the individual responded to these modes mirror responses politically and economically....

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The state is a mere machine used by one class to suppress the other. ... Marx asserts that in any state, "political power is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another" (220). It is therefore the nature of the state to include class divisions, for the state according to Marx is a mere institution for political power. ... Lenin asserts that the state is "a special machine for the suppression of one class by another" (238). ...

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Marx claims that with each advancement made by the Bourgeoisie in modern industry, it was followed by political progression also. ... With each political advancement, the Bourgeoisie gained for itself more and more power, and finally, exclusive political sway. ... This led to political centralization, and the formation of the nation-state. ... The necessary consequence of this was political centralization" (Mc Intosh 1997:42). ... This in turn gives the proletariat their final weapon, as they gained political standing and education in the process. ...

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One of the main points of the manifesto is that workers are just seen as machines, which bring power to the bourgeois, the industry. ... Even though it is already introduced in the very beginning of the manifesto, communism and its purpose are shown later in the second chapter: the formation of the proletariat into a class, the overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, and the conquest of political power by the proletariat (Mendal 25). ...

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" They also say that in order to achieve a revolution, the proletariat must "acquire political supremacy" and "rise to be the leading class of the nation" (Marx and Engels 89). ... Before a classless society can exist, Marx and Engels believed that first, the proletariat had to rise up and take the political throne from their superiors. Only when "class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, will the public power lose its political character" (Marx and Engels 93). ... In...

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This results from these 3 facts: each worker becomes increasingly dexterous in his specific task as time progresses, time is saved because the worker is not changing from one task to another, and as workers concentrate on one simple task they are more apt to develop machines that will make their job easier or do it for them (Smith 15). ... "The materialistic view of history" led Marx to believe that the government was only a "political ruling organ of the economic rulers." ...

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Review of Literature Published in 1867, Capital, Volume I serves as the beginning of a trilogy of works that attempts to analyze capitalism through an economic, political, and social lens (Marx and McLellan, 2000). ... Unlike the previous three works described, the focus of The Communist Manifesto is much more on the political and social issues that arise due to capitalism running amok. ...

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As well as having a great interest in the political economy he also went on to study sociology, interestingly he had acquired experience of social conditions during his travels through Europe. ... Marx described this class as being the main industrial workers, he also named them politically unimportant. ... Marx describes the workers as "slaves of the bourgeoisie class, enslaved by the machine". ... Throughout his life Weber took an active interest in Social and Political matters in Germany. ...

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