Slavery And Social Analysis

Throughout most of human history society as a whole has always been subordinated, whether someone lived in feudal society to a more agent society such as capitalist society. Back in a feudalist society you would have the peasants doing all the labor while the royal or higher classes get to keep most of what the peasants have produced. Still to this day we can see these kinds of injustices such as India with their caste system or even in the United States with the social class systems. Class subordinated societies are basically a new form of slavery in which the rich gets most of the meal and the rest of society, or most of society, fight for leftovers. In what follows, I agree with Marx and Engels that we should and can get rid of a class
Corporations like Nike depend on the working class people of China to make their products. The workers are so oppressed they basically become machines and they also live in horrible living conditions, many of them become depressed an kill themselves (Ballinger, 2001). In other cases such as Foxconn in China, there is little difference between the factory and a slave planation. According to Eric Alterman, the working conditions are slave like since many of the workers live, socialize, and even get married within the walls of the factory (Alterman,
In comparison to the proletarians, the higher class has more of a voice in the government than the majority of the population (Cook, Fay Lomax, Benjamin I. Page, and Rachel L. Mosowitz, 2014). The ways the bourgeois are able to keep their power is by giving campaign contributions, contacting public officials, and have greater voting rates (Cook, Fay Lomax, Benjamin I. Page, and Rachel L. Mosowitz, 2014). We often see this by observing who these political figures are supporting such as a president of a nation supporting the idea of the construction of oil pipes for gas companies. As Marx and Engels explains in the manifesto, that the bourgeois is able to gain all the power by giving some freedoms to the proletarians and exclude them from any political power. With a greater political control, they are able to gain most the power and ultimately decide the destiny of a whole nation (Scaligera C,