WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the oppressors-the middle class, including merchants, industrialists and professional people.
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the oppressed-the working class.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Proletariat: The “lower” or “working” classes, the members of which must under capitalism sell their labor in order to earn a living.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marxist definition: the proletariat Karl Marx defined the working class or proletariat as individuals who sell their labour power for wages and who do not own the means of production. He argued that they were responsible for creating the wealth of a society.
Detailed explanation-4: -Etymology. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are generally considered to have coined the term Lumpenproletariat. It is composed of the German word Lumpen, which is usually translated as “ragged” and prolétariat, a French word adopted as a common Marxist term for the class of wage earners in a capitalist system.