08-18-2022, 07:07 AM
(08-17-2022, 09:24 PM)Dill Wrote: Bourgeois and Proletarian classes emerge in Western Europe only in the late Medieval period, when and where, for the first time in history, capitalism becomes the dominant mode of economic production. And they follow wherever capitalism displaces traditional economies, world wide.
If you want to include pre-14th century "civilizations" in your statement, then you'll need to swap out the terms "Bourgeosie" and "Proletariat" for other, less specific class markers, like "rich" and "poor."
Rich and poor have always been with us, but that's no ground for an argument against fair taxes. Keeping our history in mind, that point generally appears when a dominant class argues against the re-distribution of wealth acquired through exploitation.
Correction, rich and poor have been with us since the the emergence of agricultural societies. We see this today in societies that are in the hunter-gatherer phase where there is a much more egalitarian structure than what exists one agriculture makes them rooted in one spot and changes the social dynamics.
But this is the P&R forum, not cultural anthropology, so I won't continue on.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
