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This 5 page paper explores the two strata from a Marxian point of view. The concept is viewed in contemporary times and examples are given. The paper looks at how appropriate the dicthomy is for current society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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classifications. This is true even though later theorists would create a stratification model with more layers. For Marx, there are people who have wealth and then there are others who
do not. Although it is seemingly true that there are people in the middle, the middle class is slowly disappearing and even in the United States of America today, Marxs
vision seems to be applicable. It should be stated that while one can easily break down the population into two main groups categorically, they are at least in contemporary times
not as clearly visible. There are people struggling but driving a BMW and then there are wealthy people who drive twenty year old cars because they are thrifty. In this
day and age with easy credit and an overabundance of general wealth, the line is becoming muddy. Still, the general concepts remain. At the end of the day, the laborer
is tired, is disappointed when he looks at his bank statement and is worried about the future. The business owner on the other hand may be eating the same Stouffers
TV dinner watching the same big screen television, but he does not have a worry in the world. Marx & Engels (1992) said, in The Communist Manifesto: "The bourgeoisie has
stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of
science, into its paid wage-labourers"(p.21). Thus, Marxs view is rather precise, expressing the problem by putting a price tag on everything. The doctor no longer works for altruistic reasons and
the lawyer too is corrupted by money. People in capitalist societies see this over and over again. This all plays into notions of class and is present now just as
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