Will There Ever Be A Classless Society?
Will The Proletariat Ever Rise Up Against Their Oppressors; The Bourgeoisie?
“You can’t get married to her she is not our class!!” Mom said.
“I can’t be friends with her she is not from a rich background like me” I told my friends.
Now, I believe many of us would have come across the above statements and even similar ones that were not mentioned here either during our day to day activities, in the movies or someone must have even said this to us. I wont say it’s normal but it’s almost normal. I don’t want to believe that a classless society can only exist in the movies and in our thoughts and imaginations.
Now that brings us back to our topic; Will there ever be a classless society? In my own opinion or point of view, I will say yes and at the same time, I will say yes to that question it all depends on we the masses. Why do I say no?
I believe it’s not possible for us to have a classless society because;
1 Greed: we can’t deny among the Proletariat, that are wishing to have a classless society, we have some that are greedy in the sense that for example let’s say a group of people are protesting about bad governance or embezzlement. There are still some set of people among those protesters who will sell their rights and hope for betterment of that protest for either money or luxury. Now when a certain Mr. A gives a certain Mr. B among these protesters let’s say money by telling him that if he wants more, he should bring more people among the protesters to him that he (Mr. A) would give them money including Mr. B so they can stop the protest. Imagine when 50% of these protesters who were once so cooperated to fight for betterment gets divided what do you think will happen? The 50% left will lose hope and in the process, the protest goal won’t be achieved.
2 There can’t be a classless society because no matter the occupation one is involved in, it is for the good of the society. Everyone whether rich or poor, we benefit from each other unknowingly. The lawyers benefit from the cobblers, the doctors benefit from the butchers, the hairdressers benefit from the cobblers so also the railway builders benefit from the pharmacists and so on.
In the sense that, when everyone is educated, when everyone is only involved in white collar jobs like the lawyers, the doctors, the nurses, etcetera who will do the other jobs? Who take care of our other needs? Everyone will be feeling too big to help each other. They will have a mindset that there is nothing Mr. A has that I don’t have so why should I stoop myself so low to this for him/her?
3 A classless society can not exist because, even in our holy book take for instance the bible there were scenarios, stories we came across that involved the rich and poor, poor and poor, rich and rich. Everyone was not equal there was still a class among them.
4 A classless society cannot exist because, even amongst the Proletariat (the middle class and the poor), we still have two classes existing among us. This classes are called the “Middle class” and “the poor”. Even among the middle class, there are some people who don’t want the poor to get to their level. They don’t want to be seen with them. When we are enemies to ourselves, when we are envious of each other betterment or progress there is no way we can have a change. Even the rich the bourgeoisie help themselves they spend with their circle, they are seen among their circle, they think within their circle most of them do almost everything within their circle. So, why won’t they get richer and we the Proletariats get poorer or remain in the same position when we are envious of each other?
5. Another reason why there can’t be a classless society is that the Proletariat don’t think like the Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeoisie don’t think the same way the Proletariat. For instance a poor man thinks only about his basic needs that is food, shelter and clothing once they have that they feel they are contented. It’s rare for them to think more than that but, the rich will think of how to get more money, how to acquire more luxuries and even if possible, the think of how to even get hold of the little ones the poor man has gotten to add to his own. Where and what the poor man thinks is far from where the rich man thinks he(the rich man) can only think of how to get rich the more.
I will then move to the reason why I said yes we can have a classless society. Like I said earlier, it all depends on us. Our mindset and all. We can have a classless society when we imbibe the attribute of cooperation in us. Either when protesting, when campaigning or the likes. When our mind is set on only the goal we hope to get, I believe the world will be a better place.
Another reason we can have a classless society is that if everyone can come clean and be true to what we are doing for instance, if the rich and the poor pay their taxes regularly and without anyone left out, those taxes will be used for the good of the society. Everyone would benefit from it. If those taxes are gathered without anyone hiding or keeping a part of it for personal reasons, the goal that tax been paid for by everyone will be aimed. If the goal is to build a government primary or secondary school or to building a hospital, I believe the poor who aren’t able to afford taking their children to school will benefit from it. The school or hospital that was built was as a result of the cooperation put to work.
In conclusion, the battle between the “Haves” and the “Have not” that is the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat, the motive behind all social and political activities like religion, government, science, media, technology, education and so on between the “Haves” and the “Have not” is to get and keep economic power. The Proletariat who perform manual labor and who live in substandard area with low lifestyles, these same people are the ones working for the rich to make them richer yet, the so called workers live in the ghettos without adequate health care, no education, no hope for the future and yet, they give room for differences in religion, ethnicity, gender to separate them. I believe and also just as the Marxist believe, that one day, the Proletariat will rise up against their Oppressors the Bourgeoisie and create a classless society. Once again it all depends on our mindset and determination to work towards it both the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat.
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