Marxism And It’s Ideologies, How Did It Influenced The World

Editorials News | Oct-06-2019

Marxism And It’s Ideologies, How Did It Influenced The World

Karl Marx born on 5th may 1818 – 14th march 18883 was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both applauded and criticized. Intellectuals, unions, artists and political parties, recent JNU student protest, labour unions worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas. Marx is typically cited as one of the modern science pillars.
Marxism has its influence even today, modern age politicians, revolutionary and socialist activist follows his theories. Marx’s critical theories about society economics and politics collectively understood as Marxism – hold that development of society is done through class struggle. In capitalism there is a conflict between the working class and ruling class, Marx said that means of production is controlled by ruling classes by selling the man power of working class.
Marx and Society
Marx's thoughts on labour were related to the primacy he gave to the economic relation in determining the society's past, present and future, society is influenced when the working class and the ruling class does not met with required specifications, both are interrelated to each other in a way that one cannot survive without the other, still the profit made by the ruling class is lot more than the working class as the ruling class are feeding from the wages of working people. For Marx, social change was about conflict between opposing interests, driven in the background by economic forces. This became the inspiration for the body of works known as the conflict theory. Despite Marx's stress on critique of capitalism and discussion of the new communist society that should replace it, his explicit critique is guarded, as he saw it as an improved society compared to the past ones (slavery and feudalism). Marx never clearly discusses issues of morality and justice, but scholars agree that his work contained implicit discussion of those concepts. Marx stressed that capitalism was unstable and prone to periodic crises. He suggested that over time capitalists would invest more and more in new technologies and less and less in labour, Since Marx believed that profit derived from surplus value appropriated from labour, he concluded that the rate of profit would fall as the economy grows Marx believed that increasingly severe crises would punctuate this cycle of growth and collapse.
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

By- Abhishek Singh
Content- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx


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