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POLARIZATION OF CLASSES

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

It is a known fact that polarization of classes in this society is going to occur between those individuals who have technological know-how and the have-nots. 

Polarization of classes in Marxian analysis is the inevitable historical process of the class structure becoming increasingly polarized. 

Over time, it is argued, the secondary classes of capitalism (the self-employed, the residual aristocracy, etc.) will disappear and be absorbed into either the bourgeoisie class or the proletariat. The class structure will come to consist only of these two classes.

The abstract space of technological and fi nancial globalization can have profound effects on the practice of everyday life at the level of the local, as well as the regional and national level of citizenship and the state. What each of these levels, within each of their respective borders share, is a growing concentration of wealth and poverty and polarization of classes; within cities and states, between states, and between supranational regions, polarizations are increasing.

Instead of merely asserting a tendency toward a polarization of classes, Marx predicted “ever-increasing misery” for the mass of the population. And it was this “ever-increasing misery” that would lead the masses to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. - marxists.org/ history/etol/writers/vance/1957/08/marxkeynes.htm

The continuous increase of productivity signified not increasing polarization of classes in society and the eventual destruction of the middle class, but steady improvements for the workers and the increase of the middle class. Thus, the role of the Social Democracy was not “to dissolve this society and to make proletarians of all its members. Rather, it labors incessantly at lifting the worker from! the social position of a proletarian to that of a ‘bourgeois’ and thus to make ‘bourgeoisie’ – or citizenship – universal.” - marxists.org/archive/hansen/1954/xx/bernstein.htm

There did exist serious reasons for thinking that capitalism inevitably implied an increasing polarization of classes, the absolute pauperization of the proletariat, a progressive fall in the rate of profits, anarchy, periodic crises of overproduction, massive unemployment, the disappearance of the middle classes; and that all reforms which could be conceived within the framework of the system were necessarily precarious because the fundamental laws arising from the ruthless search for surplus value, determining the whole process of production, could not be abolished within the system. - files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/136-10-22.shtml

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