It's all About Marxism Analysis #4

In this clip Lucy and Ethel are the proletariat workers while their boss is clearly the bourgeoisie. Their boss intimidates them and makes them fear for their job if they do not do it quickly enough, without ever doing any of the physical work herself. She is only mental labor, the supervisor. While it is obviously meant to be humorous, it demonstrates the struggle of the physical laborers to keep production levels high. You are what you produce, and if you do not produce enough you are worthless. Your value is your ability to produce.

Another example I found myself thinking about as I learned about Marxism is Animal Farm. Marx could, in essence, be Old Major, the one who showed the animals that they were being mistreated and that they should rebel against their human master. In the beginning all of the animals were going to be equals, all working together. The pigs would be the mental labor and all of the other animals would be the physical labor, but they would be equal. This is Marxism, before things began to go awry. I think Animal Farm is pretty accurate though, it is only a matter of time before greed and laziness set in and begin to disrupt the shared labor and equality.