How Did Marx Contribute To A Better Society

Marx was German and was born in Prussia. His thesis being something along the lines that one should not look at theology to explain human history, but one should look at philosophy. In London, he did most of his writings and he wrote for newspapers around the world to pay his bills. He had an organization that promoted the ideas of socialism. Marx is going to say that in modern historical time, the two big classes are the bourgeoisies, which was in power, and the class that is out of power is the proletarians. According to Marx’ model, he will call them internal conflicts which will eventually resolve into a better society. More specifically, Marx is going to say right now in current society, the bourgeoisies pretends to be for all the people …show more content…
Marx talks about his narrative about how we got this class divide that we have present today. Broadly speaking for Marx, the Bourgeoisie comes from the middle ages. Back historically, the class in power was the feudal class and the bourgeoisie started to gain power when they became the merchants. They were the ones who were using this system of the new market. They used trade and industry in a way that feudal lords did not. Eventually, this led the Bourgeoisie to be the revolutionary class. They are the ones who overthrew mobility. The bourgeoisie were the instigators of the end of the rule of the feudal system. Notice that for Marx, the Bourgeoisie haven’t always been the bad guys. At this part of history, they did a great job at promoting freedom by overthrowing this feudal system. However, as time goes on and the bourgeoisie gains more wealth and power, eventually they become the elites. What started out, as this small factory owner soon became these large corporations. The way in which these new values and norms are generated from a Bourgeoisie society says the most important thing is getting wealth. You need workers where you pay low wages to make these large corporations …show more content…
There are two things I will talk about. First, Marx talks about the disappearance of the little workshop. Marx is going to argue that the middle class in general is disappearing under capitalism. For example, if you own a small shop that you run with your family and you are making fabric. Now what is going to happen to your workshop when the huge fabric corporation moves next door and can sell it at half the price that you can sell it. Your workshop goes out of business and you can’t compete with this. This is what Marx is saying is happening to modern capitalistic companies. What happens to the small businesses and middle class is that they are getting forced out of their companies and they must work for these companies for much less. Marx thinks that this process is getting more intense as corporations get bigger and bigger. So the middle class is disappearing into the proletarian class. You will only have a small group of the very rich and everyone else will be living paycheck to paycheck. Marx is comparing the organization of companies and calling them despotic. Marx believes that even though the workers know how to do things more efficiently, they are the lowest of the totem pole. Marx thinks that’s odd. We trust the common person to elect our political leaders, yet this democracy hasn’t split in the work place. Marx talks a little