Marx Levels Of Power
and that’s what Marx saw it as, a tool. Change is something that Marx wanted to strive for he understood the world as it is, is unbalanced the scale of power is shifted in the direction of the upper class or bourgeois. The foundations which are society is laid on is based on power which Marx defines as the ability to command strategic resources and advantages that give you an edge on other is life, as well as the power of labor. Labor power being of the working class or the proletariat who would sell their labor, their life depending on the demand for one’s own labor. There are levels of power within our system, power to own land as well as the labor of others ranks at the top thus giving those at the bottom a sense of control over
those at the bottom, for Marx power is directly connected to class domination within society. To Marx he saw the limitations that power has within a capitalist society. We see a form of societies limitations within Marx’s theory of the state where he explains that the state is not a neutral institution, it is however a means of class power or more accurate a tool used by the bourgeois for class rule. In the beginning the state may have been established to be a neutral entity but it no such thing since it has fallen into the hands of the bourgeois. Using their power and money the state is now under the control of the bourgeois, Marx claims that the state is nothing more than a tool now to the bourgeois. They use it nothing more than an organization which has basically fused with the bourgeois for the own benefit and to protect their interests and land. Surprisingly with all the power that the bourgeoisie hold you would think that society would be completely under their control but that’s simply not the case. Even with all the disadvantages that Marx explains befalls the proletariat they do control a power unique to the lower class. They hold the power to change society, like the French revolution when the lower oppressed class no longer can take what the upper class is doing within society they will rise up. If the class as a whole decides that change is wanted change will happen, Marx claimed this to be the power that the proletariat has, the become the living force for change.
those at the bottom, for Marx power is directly connected to class domination within society. To Marx he saw the limitations that power has within a capitalist society. We see a form of societies limitations within Marx’s theory of the state where he explains that the state is not a neutral institution, it is however a means of class power or more accurate a tool used by the bourgeois for class rule. In the beginning the state may have been established to be a neutral entity but it no such thing since it has fallen into the hands of the bourgeois. Using their power and money the state is now under the control of the bourgeois, Marx claims that the state is nothing more than a tool now to the bourgeois. They use it nothing more than an organization which has basically fused with the bourgeois for the own benefit and to protect their interests and land. Surprisingly with all the power that the bourgeoisie hold you would think that society would be completely under their control but that’s simply not the case. Even with all the disadvantages that Marx explains befalls the proletariat they do control a power unique to the lower class. They hold the power to change society, like the French revolution when the lower oppressed class no longer can take what the upper class is doing within society they will rise up. If the class as a whole decides that change is wanted change will happen, Marx claimed this to be the power that the proletariat has, the become the living force for change.