Civilization

Marx states, "The bourgeoisie...compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compells them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves."(162). I found this interesting because this work was written by English Communists commentung on english society and how it developed. These English Communists have the same ideas that Ghandi had about the word "civilization". They both agree that civilisation has a connotation held by many of the bourgiose class or western capitalists: the degree to which a state has been mechanized and has been modernized. A society would be considered barbarous not based on its values, but on how technologically advanced it had become.