xxv). In industrialized societies, the majority--the laborers or proletariat--sell their labor for wages to the few capitalists who own the means of production. Marx viewed this relationship between capital and labor as the basis of bourgeois society. As capitalism is driven to increase the margin of surplus-value produced by workers, the individual laborer's lot in life grows invariably worse. Improved conditions would simply interfere with the increases in profitability that are based
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