Discuss Marx's ideas of advanced capitalism and the three categories of people within it.

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Marx held that advanced capitalism is an economic system based on profit and the pursuit of maximum profit. Capitalism divides people into two major categories and a third, smaller group. There are the bourgeoisie, the rich owners of the means of production (the technology and materials needed to produce products, such as factories), and the proletariat, the poor workers (in the factories, etc.). The perpetually unemployed comprise the third group, the lumpenproletariat.

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