Karl Marx And His Major Works! The Final Part.

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Let's finish this topic today.

Marx's hypothesis of historical materialism contains this maxim, that

"It is not the consciousness of men which determines their existence:

it is, on the contrary, their social existence which determines their

consciousness." Marx has applied his theory of historical materialism

to capitalist society in both The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital,

among others. Marx never really explained his entire theory through

but taking the text literally, "social reality" is arranged in this way.

That underlying our society is economic structure, and That above

the foundation of economy rises" legal and political... forms of social

a consciousness that relates back to the economic foundation of society.

Ann interesting mark of Marx's analysis of economic is evidenced in

Das Kapital, where he "studies the economy as a whole and not in one

or another of its parts and sections", His analysis is based on the

precept of a man being a productive entity and that "all economic value

comes from human labor."

Marx speaks of capitalism as an unstable environment. He says that its

development is accompanied by "increasing contradictions" and that

the equilibrium of the system is precarious as it is to the internal pressures

resulting from its development, Capitalism is too easy to tend to a downward

spiral resulting in economic and social ruin. An example of a downward

spiral in a capitalist society is inflation. Inflation involves too much currency

in circulation. Because of inflation and the increase in prices of goods

resulting from it, the people of the society hoard their money which,

because that money is out of circulation, causes more money to be printed.

The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. '

Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that

revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French revolution.

The other "conception" is that of the "permanent revolution" involving

a "provisional coalition" between the low and higher classes. However,

an analysis of the Communist Manifesto shows inconsistencies between

the relationship of permanent and violent revolution: that Marx did not

exactly determine the exact relationship between these two yet.

Aside from the small inconsistencies in Marx's philosophy, he exhibits

sound ideas that do seem to work on paper but fail in the real world

where millions of uncertainties contribute the error in every social

experiment on Earth. Communism never g

+ets farther than socialism in its practice in the real world and that is

where the fault lies, in the governments that try to cheat the system

while still maintaining their edieal communist society.

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