Disclaimer: This article is by no means trying to influence any kind of bad intention. This is all about sharing ideas and being informative about historical events and societal behavior.
The idea for the upcoming article is about Karl Marx’s ideology and how today’s society started to align. Understanding past events and failures made us acknowledge what had been done badly, and what we try to pursue supposedly the same thing that the past always wanted. Is it a matter of action or a matter of progress? We will further discuss the idea as we break down the parts of this topic: “Karl Marx’s Ideology”, “Ideas and Practical”, “Past failure and what we learned from it”, and “Current Generation”.
Marxism’s ideology was inspired by the economic structure conflict. He demonstrates the issues of capitalism and the hierarchy of the Bourgeois (owner) and Proletariat (worker). Marxism is the body of doctrine that has been applied during capitalism in 1848 and has been applied in social and political movements. The idea was to show the people the class struggle as to having specific economic structure birth to people in different having specific economic structure birth to people in different classes that would cause conflict between the oppressed and the oppressor. Marx “antagonized” the capitalist due to their social status in production. They are known to work purely in a collective society as they would not consider the individuals’ stance, and “personal property is not thereby transformed into social property” (Marx & Engels, 24).
The book The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx with support from Friedrich Engels in 1848. The idea applied to capitalism due to the severe hierarchal class between owners and workers, which causes inequality and a “subconscious” slavery system among the proletariat. In the book The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels, 1848), the first chapter mentioned how the bourgeois played their role as part of the revolutionary. However, Marx analyzed the causes of bourgeois society endangering the existence of bourgeois property due to the structure that started to impede the development of productive forces, which affected the proletariats. Therefore, the hierarchical class structure must be destroyed to bring human equality.
Additionally, for the proletariat, Marx mentioned that there were two key points about how the Communists are distinguished from the other working-class part. The first idea is “the national struggles of the proletarians of different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.” (Marx & Engels, 22). The second point is “the various stage of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through.” (Marx & Engels, 22). This can be understood as the working class has their own force due to the expansion in numbers, and fighting for their right to “self-acquired, self-earned property.” (Marx & Engels, 23)
Understanding through Marx’s perspective of what he could give to society and influence political movement, we are currently live in an individualistic society or collective society? As we follow the individualistic social concept, are we somehow evolving towards Marx’s perspective in humanity wellness and having the right to stand up today?
Reference:
Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1972). Manifesto of the Communist Party. Peking, Foreign Languages Press.