Marx
According to Marx, all political rule is class domination. Critically analyse.
Class is not simply an ideology legitimising oppression: it denotes exploitative relations between people mediated by their relations to the means of production. In Marxian and similar theories, the term ‘class’ is used as a technical term connected with a theory of ownership and control.
Political Rule is the exercise of power. According to Max Weber, Power is “the chance of man or a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action”.
Power is one of those words that is easy to understand but hard to define in a precise manner. It is the ability to influence decisions. There are 3 primary indicators of power:
1) Who benefits?
2) Who governs?
3) Who wins?
According to Pluralist, the existence of classes, political parties, status groups, interest groups testifies to the distribution of power. Whereas for Marxist, power is distributed according to the accumulation of capital, that is economic power.
Marx believed that Western Society had developed through four main epochs:
1) Primitive Communism.
2) Ancient Society.
3) Feudal Society.
4) Capitalist Society.
Primitive Communism is the first of the Marxist epochs. It is defined by a communal characteristic that everyone would work together for the common good. In this epoch, no one had a major interest in personally owning anything. The accumulation of wealth wasn’t a massive thing. Community members would share their resources and possessions, to help each other survive in their conditions. Marx believed that this was true communism and the only time communism actually worked.
For centuries humans lived in egalitarian societies, what Marx and Engels referred to as 'primitive communism', where all people were dependent on one another and co-operation was the guiding principle of society. However, as labor became more productive, society
Class is not simply an ideology legitimising oppression: it denotes exploitative relations between people mediated by their relations to the means of production. In Marxian and similar theories, the term ‘class’ is used as a technical term connected with a theory of ownership and control.
Political Rule is the exercise of power. According to Max Weber, Power is “the chance of man or a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action”.
Power is one of those words that is easy to understand but hard to define in a precise manner. It is the ability to influence decisions. There are 3 primary indicators of power:
1) Who benefits?
2) Who governs?
3) Who wins?
According to Pluralist, the existence of classes, political parties, status groups, interest groups testifies to the distribution of power. Whereas for Marxist, power is distributed according to the accumulation of capital, that is economic power.
Marx believed that Western Society had developed through four main epochs:
1) Primitive Communism.
2) Ancient Society.
3) Feudal Society.
4) Capitalist Society.
Primitive Communism is the first of the Marxist epochs. It is defined by a communal characteristic that everyone would work together for the common good. In this epoch, no one had a major interest in personally owning anything. The accumulation of wealth wasn’t a massive thing. Community members would share their resources and possessions, to help each other survive in their conditions. Marx believed that this was true communism and the only time communism actually worked.
For centuries humans lived in egalitarian societies, what Marx and Engels referred to as 'primitive communism', where all people were dependent on one another and co-operation was the guiding principle of society. However, as labor became more productive, society