Social Classes In The 1800's

Based on Olson’s book, Marx gave the opinion that as the administrator the state became second position in a country, because the state was the “executive committee of the bourgeoisie”, and it protected the property of the capitalist classes and adopts whatever policies were in the interest of the bourgeoisie. Classes were “organized human interest groups.” Social classes became uniformly selfish where they put the class interest above the national interest and had no concern whatever for the interests of the classes that opposed them. For Marx, a social class was not any particular group of people sharing a certain social status or included in a particular income bracket. Classes were defined in terms of property relationships. Marx believed that the owners of productive capital more important than the state itself, because they had valuable things i.e., the “expropriators” of surplus value, who made up the exploiting class, and the exploited property less wage earners that made up the

Just as the class was selfish, it was same as the individual. Marx saw community around him was about attributed to the capitalistic system and bourgeois ideology. Besides that, people who were in their class could do a class action that oriented based on individual issues, and it would not happen if the individual could not make rational action or opinion. People in the bourgeois class who wanted to complain, they maybe wanted to ask the government to represent their class or a person in a class. In fact, they didn’t want to follow the government rules, because they thought they had financial power to use, so they didn’t want the government more power over them. The government, which had policies that would give benefit for them, either the classes supported them or not, the classes would back to their interest to focus on and to