Slaves, as a social class, are those who have no choice and no freedom in their actions. They know it as well, as clearly demonstrated in Beloved; the slaves try their best to maintain their mental freedom as they lack any control over their physical state. Slaves try everything, from escape to stealing fabric to make their own wedding dresses. Nothing allows them freedom as they are always taken back and reduced to an inhuman state. Even their children are slaves and doomed to the same fate as them. The lower class, the blue collar workers, of both the time and today are extremely similar to slaves. They have no way to leave the lower class, many work more than one job to survive, certainly not thrive or even make money in the long run. Many work from paycheck to paycheck, job to job, and have to take any job offered to them. They have no freedom to choose. Lower class workers often take any job that is offered to them. They do not have the luxury of choice. The children of lower class workers are doomed to education systems that do not support to help them as much as upper and middle class schools. Lower class workers are dehumanized to a similar extent as slaves. News reporters will claim that they do not need money because 98% of them have fridges. In the eyes of the other classes, these are not people, these are workers and robots designed to ake life easier for them. There is no way to escape for a lower class worker. However, what separates them from slaves is that they are blind to this fact. Many believe they can be lucky like the few celebrities that come out of that area. This false hope keeps them far more complacent than slaves who are acutely aware of their inhumanity.
I feel like this is the entire purpose of the marxist lens, to expose this more acutely and blatantly that there is such injustice within society that is designed to support its members. I believe that without the constrictions and conflict generated by social classes, humanity can progress at a much faster pace and work towards the benefit of all society instead of the more common "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
Intriguing, I really like the flow of the blog post and how at first it goes on a rapid fire about how terrible it is for slaves and lower class citizens, but then end it in a way that affirms there is a better way for humanity to progress. I am more curious now as to how one could help society disperse social classes from our current infrastructure. Excellent work!
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