Marx Income Inequality Analysis

Income inequality is something that has been talked about during this political cycle. The gap in United States has risen in the past decades with the upper class brining in even more percentage of the wealth then they previously have in the past. The presidential candidates each have their own tax plan that they believe will help shrink this gap. Marx would say that the proletariat that are making more money for the bourgeoisie and seeing less of the wealth come their way will unite together and revolute in attempt to change the system. The promise in the change in tax plan is a way to keep the lower class laborers or the proletariat optimistic about the future and keep them from revolting. Marx would agree that this works in the short term
but eventually the inequality would come too much and the proletariat will get feed up with the system and revolt. Marx beliefs that capitalism is incapable of lasting because the proletariat is being used for their labor to make large amounts of money for the bourgeoisie and these current statistics show that they are continuing to make even more money for them. If this trend of the bourgeoisie getting more percentage of the income and the proletariat getting less percentage that a change in the system will occur as the proletariat unite together to gain more power.