How Does Fight Club Degrade The Upper Class
According to Fredrick Engels, the proletariat is defined as, "the class of modern wage-laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live" (131). This classification is present in Fight Club, as the narrator describes "You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die" (12). Tyler Durdern innovates a way to degrade the upper class. He announces fight club as a religion with ethics to follow and a day to worship by saying, "Fight Club is not about words … There's a hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved" (51). Tyler is the prophet of masculinity
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That makes tonight a kind or Robin Hood thing" (150). Not only they steal fats from hospitals and turn it into soap, but also they sell it to upper class. He explicates the process, "Fat is a magic trick … Boil and skim. Put the skimmed tallow into milk car tones with the tops opened all the day" (71).This is a very interesting point in the novel as it clarifies the envy of the lower class towards the upper class. He makes his thought clear, "you can mix the nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite" (73). It seems like Tyler is trying to inflict vengeance for the proletarians. This revenge is essential to the initiation of the revolution, as explained by Marx and Engels: "The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other mode of appropriation" (20). Another expression of Marxism in the novel is Project Mayhem. "The goal" Tyler says, is to "teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world" (122). The main mission of Project Mayhem is "cleansing and destruction" (Annesley 50), cleansing of consumerism and destruction of capitalism. Gerard Loughlin says, "Fight Club offers an engaging thoughtful analysis of the manner in which capital, and the empty and
That makes tonight a kind or Robin Hood thing" (150). Not only they steal fats from hospitals and turn it into soap, but also they sell it to upper class. He explicates the process, "Fat is a magic trick … Boil and skim. Put the skimmed tallow into milk car tones with the tops opened all the day" (71).This is a very interesting point in the novel as it clarifies the envy of the lower class towards the upper class. He makes his thought clear, "you can mix the nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite" (73). It seems like Tyler is trying to inflict vengeance for the proletarians. This revenge is essential to the initiation of the revolution, as explained by Marx and Engels: "The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other mode of appropriation" (20). Another expression of Marxism in the novel is Project Mayhem. "The goal" Tyler says, is to "teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world" (122). The main mission of Project Mayhem is "cleansing and destruction" (Annesley 50), cleansing of consumerism and destruction of capitalism. Gerard Loughlin says, "Fight Club offers an engaging thoughtful analysis of the manner in which capital, and the empty and