Unique Bourgeoisie

[Servia]

Why is this true? "The bourgeoisie are unique in that they cannot continue to exist without revolutionizing the instruments of production." from the Communist Manifesto

[Creative Destruction]

because the main reason for revolutionizing the means of production is capital accumulation and profit.

[Comrade #138672]

As rednose said, capitalists are driven by the profit incentive, i.e., the need for capital accumulation. Capitalists that are able to revolutionize the means of production are temporarily able to generate "super-profits", i.e., profits that are beyond the average due to overall cheaper costs of the relatively advanced means of production, which gives them a leverage over other capitalists, but only for a short time. Once the means of production have been revolutionized by capitalists for profit, it quickly spreads, since other capitalists do not want to have a disadvantage, because they too are driven by the profit incentive. This eventually causes the value of a commodity to decline, which cancels out the temporary "super-profits" for the capitalists that utilized the revolutionized means of production. Since capitalists are always seeking higher profits, they always need to find a way to revolutionize the means of production before other capitalists, in order to benefit from the "super-profits". This is why the bourgeoisie is unique in that they never cease to revolutionize the means of production. They do not have a choice. They have to. Otherwise they perish.

[Redistribute the Rep]

As rednose said,

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[PhoenixAsh]

While I find it extremely funny and you expressed exactly what I was thinking....and incidentally thanked your post...

I do want to remind you that this is the learning forum and one liners or non-topic picture answers are seriously frowned upon in this section of the board.

see: :mad:

[Creative Destruction]

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[blake 3:17]

Why is this true? "The bourgeoisie are unique in that they cannot continue to exist without revolutionizing the instruments of production." from the Communist Manifesto


I love the comic strip about Steve Jobs being reincarnated as a sweat shop worker making iPods.

These people really are psychopathic -- capitalism is psychopathic. It's all about increasing speed, volume, production levels with no consideration of what's at stake.

There's a real perversity to capitalist society in that the New! Wow Fresh! must be celebrated for bourgeois ideology to maintain its hold.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Why is this true? "The bourgeoisie are unique in that they cannot continue to exist without revolutionizing the instruments of production." from the Communist Manifesto

There were changes and technical or organizational "revolutions" under different ruling classes, but it was not a driving factor for those societies. If an aristocrat needed more power or wealth, they tried to grab more land or more peasants. If new innovations helped their armies or helped make tasks easier, well great, they took it, but it was not central to the way they had power or maintained it.

But capitalist competition and the tendency for profits to fall over time drive capitalists to constantly introduce new technology and new organization and to expand their reach to untapped areas for profit.