Topic > Karl Marx's View on the Family - 1146

Throughout history, Marx discusses how the bourgeoisie had a great influence on capitalist society by saying: “It created huge cities, it greatly increased the urban population compared to that rural, and has thus saved a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life” (159). This is a social class that runs around persistently making improvements and changes with the aim of making money. While the bourgeoisie has made some good changes, Marx says, “it has stripped the family of its sentimental veil and has reduced the family relationship to a mere monetary relationship” (158). Marx is saying that the main goal of the bourgeoisie is to make money. He emphasizes more objectives of the bourgeoisie that “bourgeois marriage is actually a system of communal wives” (169). Marx is demonstrating that the bourgeois has an image of the wife as the one who produces the children, while the husband produces the money. The solution Marx offers is in a communist society where he sees the existence of a community of women (169). The bourgeoisie would not like communism, because in this state they would not have control, they would have property and women would have freedom