How Did Marxism Still Exist?
Karl Marx was the founding father of the capitalism theory of sociology and was popular for co-authoring the Communist Manifesto, (Little, W. et al. (2014). Through his theory a great sociological perspective was developed. He believed that the inequality that was present in his time was due to the unequal distribution of power and material in society, separating it into two classes; the upper and the lower class referred to by Marx as the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Marx believed that the only way equality will exist is when the proletariat join together and revolt against the bourgeoisie to have the power and the wealth impartially distributed. Marx stated “inequalities of capitalism would become so extreme that workers would eventually
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It can be clearly seen that generally workers give the greatest output and received the smallest rewards. Business owners, boards of directors and investors benefit the greatest from the profit business and companies make, while the factory workers and staff directly involved with the development of products have to do the most work and receive the lowest salaries. This distribution of resource leaves all the power in the hand of the rich and the poor, lower class continue to struggle and suffer. “The capitalists who owned the factories and means of production were in a sense parasitic on workers’ labour” Little, W. et al. (2014), therefore the rich essentially depend on the labour of the poor to achieve and retain their riches and they use their power to maintain this hierarchy. Many times because the upper class have the greater share of power they are able to control the justices received by the lower class in the work place. However Marx argued that specific work actions such as strikes, demands for better pay and safer working conditions and obtaining the right to unionize is a major step towards universal equality, (Little, W. et al. 2014) . Although such a society have never been formed, it is evident in my society that these actions are successful in bringing about more favorable conditions for workers and also in many situations justice were obtained where it was not
It can be clearly seen that generally workers give the greatest output and received the smallest rewards. Business owners, boards of directors and investors benefit the greatest from the profit business and companies make, while the factory workers and staff directly involved with the development of products have to do the most work and receive the lowest salaries. This distribution of resource leaves all the power in the hand of the rich and the poor, lower class continue to struggle and suffer. “The capitalists who owned the factories and means of production were in a sense parasitic on workers’ labour” Little, W. et al. (2014), therefore the rich essentially depend on the labour of the poor to achieve and retain their riches and they use their power to maintain this hierarchy. Many times because the upper class have the greater share of power they are able to control the justices received by the lower class in the work place. However Marx argued that specific work actions such as strikes, demands for better pay and safer working conditions and obtaining the right to unionize is a major step towards universal equality, (Little, W. et al. 2014) . Although such a society have never been formed, it is evident in my society that these actions are successful in bringing about more favorable conditions for workers and also in many situations justice were obtained where it was not