MARXISM

Marxism is Sociological, political, and economic philosophy that is based on the ideas
and theory of Karl Marx. Marxism analyze the material conditions and the economic activities
require to fulfill human material need to explain social phenomena within a given society. Under
the capitalist mode of production, this struggle materialize between the minority (the
bourgeoisie) who own the means of production and the vast minority of the population (the
proletariat) who produce goods and services. Social change occurs because of the struggle
between different classes (rich and poor) within a society who are under contradiction against
each other, a Marxist would conclude that capitalism exploits and oppresses the proleteriat,
therefor capitalism will lead to proletariat revolution where the they will control everything in
the society. In capitalist mode of production, thet will result is more sublty achieve and because
workers do not own the means of production, they must voluntarily work very hard with
capitalist in order to earn the necessities of life. The worker must work on starve, thus,
exploitation is inevitable and the nature of a worker participating in a capitalist society is
illusory.

Living in a capitalist society, however, the individual is not truly free. An alienated being.
The life of the worker depend on thing that he has created but that are not his. Marx observed an
economic gap between two classes (rich and poor) and states that the two classes are placed
against one another in a struggle to control the means of production, the distribution of resources
and the profit gained from it. This class Struggle would consequently bring about social change
from the widening gap between the two classes, the notion of the rich become richer and the poor
becoming poorer, to the point where the poor working class would ultimately overthrow the
ruling class and give rise to new social arrangement of the classes.

As we can see the society of today, there are still a continuous social inequality and the
gap between rich and poor, where the people in a position or the rich person have the power to
control everything and take advantage to the poor one but not all. Because as I observed now
adays people give respect to one another wether you rich or poor you still have the right to do
evrything as long as you cannot harm other. That is what marxism want,to have an equality
within a society.

Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who
doesn't even know where north or south is. If you don't eventually come to truly understand the
history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich
and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you're lost in a forest, not
knowing anything.