Impoverishment theory debate

Japanese: 窮乏化説論争 - きゅうぼうかせつろんそう
Impoverishment theory debate

The theory that the development of a capitalist economy inevitably leads to the impoverishment of the working class. Although it is not a term used by K. Marx, the content of this theory is an aspect of his theory, and it has been considered to be an important argument for the movement to abolish capitalism and realize socialism through the unity of the working class.
[Marx's Impoverishment Theory]
For example, in The Communist Manifesto, co-authored with Engels, he had already stated the following: Modern bourgeois society, which arose from the decline of feudal society, has reduced various lower middle classes to the proletariat, and increasingly simplified the class conflicts in all society into two great classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

*Some of the terminology used in relation to the "impoverishment theory controversy" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…資本主義経済の発展にともない不可避的に労働者階級の窮乏化がすすむという学説。K.マルクスの用語ではないが,内容的には彼の学説の一面をなし,労働者階級の団結により資本主義を廃止して社会主義を実現しようとする運動の重要な論拠を示すものとみなされてきた。
[マルクスの窮乏化説]
 彼はたとえばエンゲルスとの共著《共産党宣言》でもすでにほぼつぎのように述べていた。すなわち,封建社会の没落から生まれた近代ブルジョア社会は,さまざまな下層の中産階級をプロレタリアに転落せしめ,ブルジョアジーとプロレタリアートとの二大階級に全社会の階級対立をますます単純化していく。…

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