Marxism Vs Labor

Marx is often connected with critiques on capitalistic societies. In a capitalistic society such as America, individuals are primarily driven by the accumulation of profit. Marx believed that social inequalities in capitalist societies were molded by competition over resources and various goals. He theorized that wealth, power, and various advantages would eventually become disproportionately distributed among segments of the population due to this competition. Descendants of Marxism commonly focus on the ways in which this privileged segment of the United States strives to perpetuate their status and wealth.

Karl Marx believes that a capitalistic society separates the rich from the poor. corporations that holds the money hold the power to dictate whether certain fucntions of society.

Marx thought of capitalism in a pessimistic way, he saw the relationship between the employee and employer in a capitalistic society as toxic. To Marx, in a capitalistic society the employee would always be at a constant struggle for power be never endlessly repressed by the bourgeoisie. The employer would pay employees only what they needed to survive making it impossible to move up in class or society. He also recognized that in capitalism everything becomes corporatized. Things like marriage go from a sacred bond between two individuals that once never included money or the government, to something that is regulated by the national government and must be done through the federal court and include ties between the individual's financial status. Small businesses would also become corporatized, a local family doctor has now become part of a larger practice that brings in complex forms of payment such as insurance instead of simply paying a small family doctor directly. He also goes into the downfall of capitalism. The way capitalism works is through a series of economic highs and lows, each high is marked by prosperous times, high employment rate, and overall happiness. But the lows are marked by deterioration of the national economy, low employment rates, and struggle for all classes. To Marx’s these highs and lows are what's killing capitalism with each low being worse than the last until the people revolt and create a new form of government. The next would be socialism and once this fell like capitalism, the new governing system would be communism. Communism is an ideal system where people are never struggling for money and are paid based on their needs rather than their particular job. Through this system a

As capitalist societies expanded, Marx argued that exploitation amongst workers became more apparent. Marx believed that the only way to get rid of the exploitation, oppression and alienation was for a revolution amongst the proletariat workers. Marx suggests that it is only when the means of production are communally owned, that class divisions among the masses will disappear.

Now, according to Marx, the ‘Capitalists’ were exploiting the workers, and in some ways, he was correct. We’ll get back to this shortly. Marx used one of the most basic of human failings against people: he used their own laziness and greed to convince them that the Capitalist was ‘bad’ because he was exploiting them and taking what they rightfully earned. At the same time, without ever having to say it, Marx created the belief that — since he was ‘fighting’ for them — Marx and his moochers were ‘good.’ In short: Marx was ‘fighting for the people,’ while the Capitalist was ‘exploiting the people.’ In truth, both Marx and the Capitalist were exploiting the people for control. The only difference was one created and the other

Though terms such as “Bourgeoisie” and “Proletariat” are difficult to remember, they are just words to identify two classes- capitalist and worker. According to Ritzer, as a conflict theorist, Marx categorized alienation into four particular types. First of all, labors in capitalist society are alienated from their “productive activity”. It simply means workers do not produce items based on their needs or ideas. They are just simply following instructions, instead of creating or directly satisfying their own needs. For example, worker A needs some wheat and corn to feed himself and his family, instead of going to grow corn by himself, he choose to go working for the capitalist, get pay-check, and buy the wheat and corn in a super-store. In other words, the Capitalist gains control of the worker. Secondly, in capitalist society, labors are alienated from the product. It means workers produced products that completely belong to the capitalists, no matter how desperate the worker needs. For example, there was a comic picture on newspaper about a story that a worker worked for a bakery factory starving for death. Thirdly, workers in capitalist society are alienated from their associates. According to Marx, capitalists assume that cooperation in capitalism is disrupted, therefore they requires “less talk, more work” as principal in capitalism work place. Finally, labors in capitalist society are alienated from their own human potential, which means at work place in

Karl Marx argued that the capitalist seeks to make an illusion that the workers are sufficiently paid enough for the work they are performing. This is also known as alienation from products of own labor. Capitalist seeks to govern the workers by depriving them of basic benefits of the work place. Marx states in his reading, “EPM”, “When he is working he does not feel at home…his labor is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor.”(4). This statement shows that once the worker puts his life into his labor, he is invested into his work whether he likes it or not. Furthermore, due to the worker not owning the profits

Karl Marx, also a philosopher was popularly known for his theories that best explained society, its social structure, as well as the social relationships. Karl Marx placed so much emphasis on the economic structure and how it influenced the rest of the social structure from a materialistic point of view. Human societies progress through a dialectic of class struggle, this means that the three aspects that make up the dialectic come into play, which are the thesis, antithesis and the synthesis (Avineri, 1980: 66-69). As a result of these, Marx suggests that in order for change to come about, a class struggle has to first take place. That is, the struggle between the proletariat and the capitalist class, the class that controls

Karl Marx came up later with a theory of a classless society to help the working class fight back. Marx came up with many radical ideas to change the way society was proceeding socially which, caused him to be banished from his native land in Germany and then from France, eventually he ended up in England. (Compton's Encyclopedia, 121) Karl Marx believed that social conflict was needed for society to function. He showed people not to be scared of conflict but rather to except it as a way of life. Karl Marx believes that people have a "class consciousness" which means that people are aware of differences between one another and that it causes a separation between groups of people. People mostly look at material objects for a sense of class status. If you are wealthy in life then you have many material objects and if you are poor then you have very little. People need to be educated in order to move up in society, which is why the working class people rarely have a chance to be very successful. Karl Marx realized that the working class deserved more then they were receiving and he tried to help the situation. Marx wanted the wealthy people and the poor to become more economically equal in status. Karl Marx also discusses the economic issues that the working class faces with change. With capitalism growing there is a greater need for production in the factories. More products need to be produced and at

Division of labour is also credited with the rise of trade between different areas, the rise of capitalism, and increasingly complex manufacturing and industrialization. For Karl Marx, the production portion of Capitalism signalled great trouble. He believed production in Capitalist society worked in a way that the rich factory owner benefited and the poor factory workers lost. In his manner of reasoning, the Capitalist system was inherently meant to benefit the rich and exploit the poor: “All the bourgeois economists are aware of is that production can be carried on better under the modern police than on the principle of might makes right. They forget only that this principle is also a legal relation, and that the right of the stronger prevails in their ‘constitutional republics’ as well, only in another form.”[ii] Marx’s view of society and the world lead him to believe that humans create change in their lives and in their environment through practical activity in the practical world.

Marx viewed society as a conflict between two classes in competition for material goods. He looked at the history of class conflicts and determined that the coming of the industrial age was what strengthened the capitalist revolution. Marx called the dominant class in the capitalist society the bourgeoisie and the laborers the proletariat. The bourgeoisie owned or controlled the means of production, exploited laborers, and controlled the goods produced for its own needs. He believed that the oppressed class of laborers was in a position to organize itself against the dominating class. He felt that it was the course of nature, that is, it is the way that society evolves and that the communist society would be free of class conflict, "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." (Marx & Engels 1948, 37)

A major strength of Marx’s theory on is that it provides a comprehensive explanation of the power struggle that conceptually occurs within a capitalistic society. This explanation is extremely comprehensive and covers not only macro-social aspects, but also micro-social aspects which helps understand more clearly the proletariat’s struggle with human potential, alienation, etc. It is relatively rare for sociology to focus extensively on micro-social interactions for explanations, which is a strength of Marx. I think this theory on capitalism is a great conceptual theory, but is not entirely applicable in the real world, which some frown upon. Another strength is the focus on not only the present, but also the past and future. Along with this, it is important to point out that even though Marx eluded to a future of communism, he did not spend too much time depicting what this new world would be like, according to Ritzer (73). Yet another strength is Marx’s political and economic background. Not only was he a very influential sociologist, but an economist and philosopher. This background allowed Marx to bring views from other fields into his theory of capitalism.

Now days Karl Marx is still consider one of the most significant and influential thinkers of all times. Karl Marx with the help of Engel’s, which was also a political philosopher were the fathers of communist or socialism which was almost establish successfully in Russia. They provided a complex and philosophical analysis of capitalist societies which is still influencing major changes in the societies. Marx opposed to the principles of capitalism and considers that it was an economic system control by labours who exchanged their land labour for money. Also Engels and Marx argued about the exploitation of working class and the interests of the capitalists that affect proletarian. The alienation of man is another reason for Marx to be

Karl Marx makes many important points in his writings about how society at his time was being oppressed by industrialization and the beginning of capitalism. Marx believed man was being alienated from his labor in four different ways. The Alienation of the worker from the work he produces is the first way man alienates himself from his labor. This means man is alienated from the product of his labor. The product's design and the manner in which it is produced are determined not by its actual producers, nor even by those who consume products, but rather by the business owners. The business owner controls the labor and owns the means of production. In other words, the business owner gains control of workers and gains the beneficial effects of his work by

Karl Marx was a strong critic of capitalism, he spent a large part of his life writing and philosophizing for the down fall of capitalism. Through he was also interested in studying the nature of the society and relations. His tried to uncover the force and corruption that lies under modern human interaction and class struggle. Marxian notion of a person is someone who works; this is because he believed work is the only thing that keeps humans in touch to reality. Marx in his concept of alienation tried to develop a conception of how human feels and think, what motives man, influence man in his struggle through life to make a living. Marx tries to use his theory of alienation to solve societal problems such as class