The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
Karl Marx tries to examine the oppression workers were going through in Europe, especially on the unequal distribution of wealth under the capitalistic system. He proposes a way through which the proletariat class can wage a revolution against the ruling bourgeois class to win social and economic equality. Marx views history as a struggle of classes, such as master and servant and bourgeoisie and the working class (1998). He proposed that as the lower class gained power, a new class would emerge to subsume the old upper class with an emergent of the merchant class and a working class. As the working class eliminates the rest of the classes, there would be no need for class struggle without trappings of class welfare, for instance nation-states, money, and governments.
Marx, in his philosophy thought that his work would fuel a scientific truth with regard to the humanity affairs. Moreover, Marx was under the notion that workers would be better off if they take over the means of production and as such do away with the capitalist movement. However, Marx did not envision a scenario whereby the means of production would become less expensive due to the production inefficiencies thereby allowing the …show more content…
He finds that man is dominated by unconscious conflicts that engulf his sexual instinct. He argues that man is obsessed with a destructive aggression and as such man needs strong controls imposed from without by a strong ruler. Therefore, a tyrannical conscience would be important in imposing a burden of irrational guilt. He, however, is for the idea that civilization is beneficial in the control of the realistic dangers and as such suppresses the inherent human nature. Freud (1989) notes that the random destruction from natural events leads to life threats as is the maladjustments of the human relationships and the weakness of the human
Karl Marx tries to examine the oppression workers were going through in Europe, especially on the unequal distribution of wealth under the capitalistic system. He proposes a way through which the proletariat class can wage a revolution against the ruling bourgeois class to win social and economic equality. Marx views history as a struggle of classes, such as master and servant and bourgeoisie and the working class (1998). He proposed that as the lower class gained power, a new class would emerge to subsume the old upper class with an emergent of the merchant class and a working class. As the working class eliminates the rest of the classes, there would be no need for class struggle without trappings of class welfare, for instance nation-states, money, and governments.
Marx, in his philosophy thought that his work would fuel a scientific truth with regard to the humanity affairs. Moreover, Marx was under the notion that workers would be better off if they take over the means of production and as such do away with the capitalist movement. However, Marx did not envision a scenario whereby the means of production would become less expensive due to the production inefficiencies thereby allowing the …show more content…
He finds that man is dominated by unconscious conflicts that engulf his sexual instinct. He argues that man is obsessed with a destructive aggression and as such man needs strong controls imposed from without by a strong ruler. Therefore, a tyrannical conscience would be important in imposing a burden of irrational guilt. He, however, is for the idea that civilization is beneficial in the control of the realistic dangers and as such suppresses the inherent human nature. Freud (1989) notes that the random destruction from natural events leads to life threats as is the maladjustments of the human relationships and the weakness of the human