Being rich gives one power over others who do not have the same amount of money as one. In a book entitled Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he talks about how there are different classes and the people that live in their society are struggling to reach the next higher class. Everyone in their society has been conditioned to appear happy which makes the society fully functional. The society was created with each person being assigned a social status right after they are born. When rich families have children the child is automatically born into a higher class than if a poor family was giving birth to their child. Huxley shows the issue of class struggle from the Marxist perspective when he writes “Everyone works for everyone else. We can't…show more content… Such ownership vests a person with the power to exclude others from the property and to use it for personal purposes. Class struggle can only be created when a class has interest and that people from the classes start to act the same which is a recurring theme in Brave New World. People are all the same because they have been conditioned to be and act a certain way. Aldous Huxley reassures that people are being conditioned in the society because he writes “And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny" (Huxley 16). Huxley is saying that conditioning is to improve and help people escape their own reality and feature that has been established. Karl Marx also says “Each society, whether it was tribal, feudal or capitalist was characterized by the way its individuals produced their means of subsistence, their material means of life, how they went about producing the goods and services they needed to live. Each society created a ruling class an a subordinate class as a result of their mode of production or economy” (Marx). Which means that to be a society you have to create a ruling class much like the Alphas. Karl Marx also has the idea that class struggle occurs when the individuals in the class have a mutual dependence and have a shared interest interrelated with a common income of profit or of wages. With those common interest you form a class according to Karl Marx. Classes look at their interest and try to apply it or change the other classes which eventually creates class conflict. In Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley he states that “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, … I am really awfully glad I am a Beta because I do not work so hard” (Huxley 70). Huxley is saying that the children who are barely growing
