Karl Marx's Dialectic Analysis

In order to appreciate the central Marxian conception of the dialectic, we must first in the words of Vladimir Lenin, “understand Hegel first”. The main idea of dialectic is the centrality of contradiction, which dialectics believe exist in reality and that the most appropriate way to understand reality is to study the development of those contradictions. Additionally, Hegel used the idea of contradiction to understand historical change and believe that these contradictions could be worked out in our understanding. However, the same cannot be said for Karl Marx, who believed these are real, existing contradictions. The importance of this allowed Marx to study social relations/changes grounded in the material world, or in other words, the ways …show more content…
In other words, numerous individuals who would be considered as the “proletariat” will blame their managers for their ill-fated ways, since managers now may be the ones to alienate workers, and not recognize that it is the capitalist system that is hurting them. Another overlooked factor from Marx could be the fact that in his time these advanced capitalist societies were maintaining their factories in their own countries, and exploiting their own citizens. However, nowadays, most production occurs overseas in incredibly poor areas. Therefore, citizens in these advanced capitalist systems do not suffer from the conditions those in overseas factories do, nor is there a large enough of them who are exploited for a revolution to …show more content…
Before answering this vital question we must define mode of production, and the superstructure that maintains and justifies it. Firstly, the mode of production is the economic ‘base’ of society such as, the forces of production which are comprises of societies means of production, and social relations of production (economic relationships). Furthermore, the superstructure comprises of social institutions like religion, government, and ideologies or, in other words, the dominant ideas and beliefs that justify and maintain the social system (the base influences and shapes the superstructure). In addition, since class is determined by a group’s relationship to the means of production, the upper class is then filled with the dominant class or the ones who own the means of production. In contrast, the lower class is filled with the working class due to them not owning the means of production (which grows due to polarization). Moreover, the dominant class will possess all their own culture which will attempt to justify the exploitation of workers, in turn this ideology of theirs will become the dominant ideology for the reason the dominant class possesses the power to influence culture. Additionally, the ideology will comprise of the ideas, beliefs and values that reflect and support the interests of the dominant upper class, or justifying inequalities and the base (the superstructure). For instance, the capitalists (and