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  • Essay / Karl Marx's View on the Family - 1146

    Throughout history, Marx explains how the bourgeoisie had a major influence on capitalist society by saying: "It created enormous cities , greatly increased the urban population in relation to the rural population and thus saved a considerable part of the population from the stupidity of rural life” (159). This is a social class that constantly makes improvements and changes in order to make money. While the bourgeoisie experienced some positive changes, Marx says that it "torn the family from its sentimental veil and reduced the family relationship to a simple monetary one" (158). Marx says that the main goal of the bourgeoisie is to make money. He emphasizes other goals of the bourgeoisie that “bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of common wives” (169). Marx shows that the bourgeois has the image of the wife who produces the children, while the husband produces the money. The solution proposed by Marx lies in a communist society where he considers that there is a community of women (169). The bourgeoisie would not like communism, because in that state they would not have control, they would not own property and women would have the freedom to do so.