NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

SOCIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____, according to Marx, were the workers who were oppressed by those who owned the means of production.
A
capitalists
B
communists
C
proletariat
D
fascists
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Marx defined the proletariat as the social class having no significant ownership of the means of production (factories, machines, land, mines, buildings, vehicles) and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor power for a wage or salary.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term relations of production refers to the relationship between those who own the means of production (the capitalists or bourgeoisie) and those who do not (the workers or the proletariat).

Detailed explanation-3: -In the theory of Karl Marx, the term proletariat designated the class of wage workers who were engaged in industrial production and whose chief source of income was derived from the sale of their labour power.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marx wrote that the industrial capitalists and others using private property to make profits made up the oppressive class of his time. Marx called this class the bourgeoisie, which used its wealth and control over government to exploit the industrial working class. Marx named this class the proletariat.

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