Underclass Marx Minorities

The gap between rich and poor grows wider in American society. So, too, the class at the bottom of the political and economic social structure is in jeopardy of being permanently stuck there. With respect to African American minorities and urban cities in America, this is particularly true. African Americans are generally less educated, less politically represented, and less well off economically than whites or other ethnic minority groups like Asians and Hispanics. African Americans often have limited access to affordable quality health care, and other social and economic phenomena have worsened their socio-economic positio

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dustry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages. We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and exchange. (Marx 413) In The Way The World Works, Jude Wanniski argues that there is not some conspiracy of the rich upper classes to keep the lower classes in tow. Instead, the way capitalism, laissez-faire, and materialism operate remain the causes of the uneven distribution of resources (education, income, jobs, health care) among the classes. She argues that Marx and Engels actually admired laissez-faire, but found it so efficient that overproduction would result causing crashes and contractions in order to restore balance. She argues it is the nature of this kind of socio-economic structure that causes the underclass, not race, location, environment, etc., “The masses take the brunt of the contraction. They ultimately must react politically to defend themselves against this cycle of pleasure and pain. The proletariat takes matters into its own hands if only to smooth
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