Society is a broken hierarchy of social order waiting to be destroyed. The system man has placed himself in is nothing more than a waiting game as to when the poorer peasants will rise up against the rich few and take control of the state. Society is divided into groups such as the masses, the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, the middle class and the rich upper class. These groups are nothing other than the natural psychodynamic order that man creates within himself. Society is an incessant cycle of class order and revolution. This cycle is demonstrated through theories of social order such as Marx's Communist Manifesto and Gasset's Revolt of the Masses. Society places constraints on itself to create classes. Gasset describes the majority of people as the mass who “comes into the world to be directed, influenced, represented, organized”; the sole purpose of the mass is to be inserted into a social order and controlled (90). After the mass has gained enough momentum, they develop the state, which in Gasset's theory is simply an idea controlled by the mass; however, the state is actually controlled by a wealthy upper class. This idea of ​​a wealthy upper class controlling the state is supported by Marx's social theory that “the bourgeoisie has finally won for itself the modern representation of the state” (Marx 364). The bourgeoisie has complete control of the nation, the masses and the state. The state is no longer an idea held together by the people of the nation, but is the force of a wealthy few who develop laws and keep the lower classes beneath them. The lower classes can be divided into two different groups, the masses and the prolets. The mass is a group of middle class people who attest... middle of paper... and feel like they aren't. The proletarians work for everyone above them and know they have no say in what happens in government. The proletarians eventually realize that they have more numerical power than the bourgeoisie and rebel against them, creating a new order of social structure. Eventually the original proletariats forget the oppression they were trying to change and begin to impose oppression on the original bourgeoisie. This begins the social cycle again and another revolution occurs. The social order is an incessant cycle of revolutions. Works Cited Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. A world of ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. New York: Bedford St. Martin's, 2010. 362-383. Print.Ortega Y Gasset, Jose´. “The greatest danger, the State”. A world of ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. New York: Bedord St. Martin's, 2010. 90-97. Press.