Essays on Karl Marx

1. What do Marx and Engels mean by the term “proletariat”?             “The lower strata of the middle class – the small trades people, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants – all these sink gradually into the proletariat…” (Marx, p.7)             The proletariat according to Marx and Engels are the working classmen…

Being reared in the typical capitalist community in the United States, it is much easier for me to relate to the thoughts of Adam Smith. This is not to say that I do not agree with some of the precepts of pure Communism, but like the old adage says, “Communism looks good on paper, but…

The area of social stratification has been the starting point of many arguments about how and why societies are divided. Some societies will shout that they are classless whilst others will construct a whole culture around the divisions within. Individuals will vehemently point out that they are from one class when others have said differently….

According to Karl Marx, wages are a representation of one’s potential value of labor, however company owners necessarily get more money from one’s labor than an individual is paid in wages, for wages are based upon what is considered the minimal amount of money needed to sustain a worker’s life. This makes it a structural…

G. W. F. Hegel (1770 – 1831 A.D.) is referred to as an idealist, who believed that the only thing that is truly in existence is “the ideal” rather than the ordinary.  This “ideal” came from the “Absolute Mind,” which was a perfect mind in Hegel’s opinion.  He believed that the Absolute Mind evolves itself…

Karl Marx was born in Trier, Bruckergasse 664, on May 5, 1818. Karl was the son of a lawyer named Heinrich, and his wife Henriett. Together, Heinrich and Henriett had seven children named Sophie, Karl, Hermann, Henriette, Luise, Emilie, and Karoline. Karl lived most of his life outside Germany, primarily in London. He received a…

Many types of people, whether they are Catholic, Muslim, or Jewish, are expected to follow their family’s religion as a social norm. From Marxist perspective, these expectations become part of religion’s ability to control society and maintain the status quo. Religion as Ideology For Marx, ideology is a belief system that changes people’s perception of…

Marx and Malthus The population growth had been a matter of concern and debatable since long. Many economic theorist analyses the population growth from their theories. Malthus, while looking at the extraordinary increase in population calculated that the population would eventually surpass the food supply. While Karl Marx categorically rejected this analysis and argued that…

Theory of social change Mar’s focus on the process of social change is so central to this thinking that it informs all his writings. The motor force of history for Marx is not to be found in any extra-human agency, be it “providence” or the “objective spirit. ” Marx insisted that men make their own…

At present, our society is still locked up with a classic structure of class distinctions or in other viewpoint, discriminations. The boundary categorizing each group of people is best epitomized by the “pyramid structure” in which the base constitutes to the greater majority of individuals better known as the working classes or the proletarians while…