The impoverishment of the proletariat is introduced as follows:
Proletarian impoverishment refers to the objective process of the deterioration of the economic status and social life of the proletariat under the capitalist system. The characteristic of capitalist society is that the means of production are in the hands of the bourgeoisie.
The proletariat has nothing. In order to survive, they have to sell their own labor, be employed by capitalists, and get a small amount of wages to maintain the reproduction of labor. This economic status of the proletariat makes their life insecure and has been in an embarrassing position for a long time.
The roots of proletarian impoverishment are introduced as follows:
The motive and direct purpose of capitalist production is to produce surplus value. In order to pursue more surplus value and beat each other in the competition, capitalists take various measures to strengthen the exploitation of hired workers and convert the surplus value from exploitation into capital as much as possible. With the accumulation of capital, social wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists.
On the other hand, with the growth of capital accumulation and the improvement of the organic composition of capital, the proportion of constant capital in total capital is increasing, while the proportion of variable capital is decreasing, while the supply of labor is greatly increasing. As a result, the oversupply of labor will inevitably lead to a large number of relatively surplus population.
The existence of relatively surplus population or industrial reserve forces, in turn, is the lever of capital accumulation, and even becomes the condition for the existence of capitalist mode of production. Marx carefully investigated the above situation and revealed the general law of capitalist accumulation.
This law shows that the accumulation of capital is accompanied by the accumulation of proletarian poverty. The pauperization of the proletariat under the capitalist system is the inevitable result of the law of surplus value, the general law of capitalist accumulation and the resulting law of relative overpopulation.
Poverty is described as follows:
Poverty, Chinese pinyin: Pí n kī n, refers to economic or spiritual poverty, which is called poverty. It is a phenomenon of poverty in social material life and spiritual life, and poverty is a comprehensive phenomenon of social material life and spiritual life.