Source: Louis Blanc, French socialist reformer, *The Organization of Work*, 1839
'What is competition to the worker? It is a system of extermination. A manufacturer needs a worker: three present themselves... "How much for your work?" "Three francs, I have a wife and children." "Good. And you?" "Two and a half francs, I have no children, but a wife." "Very well. And you?" "Two francs will do; I am single." "You get the job." The contract is closed. The lowest bidder wins. But what becomes of the other two? They will starve... Under the system of unlimited competition, work is not guaranteed, and the worker is constantly at the mercy of market fluctuations. We demand that the state establish social workshops, owned by the workers but funded and regulated by the government, to ensure employment and fair wages for all.'
Which of the following best explains how the solution proposed by Blanc in the passage differs from the revolutionary communist perspective developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
- ABlanc's proposal for state-regulated social workshops was later adopted by Marx and Engels as the primary method to achieve a stateless communist society through peaceful parliamentary reforms.
- Blanc believed that the existing government could be utilized to fund cooperative workshops to assist workers, whereas Marx and Engels argued that the state was an instrument of the ruling class that had to be overthrown.Cevap
- CBlanc championed a violent proletarian revolution to seize private factories, while Marx and Engels argued that moderate legislative reforms and state-regulated wages were sufficient to achieve a classless society.
- DBlanc advocated for a return to mercantilist trade monopolies to protect French industrial workers, while Marx and Engels championed the expansion of free-market capitalism to increase wages.