Social Problems In Why Marx Was Right By Terry Eagleton

Marx has had relevance in a world of Utopia. He wants to leave without revolutions, disasters, and everything that must be with violence in general. He has many theories and ideas in mind of how a perfect world would look like and he wants to apply them to change the future. However, there are many people who do not believe in his theories and many who support them and want to work with him to change the world for the good. Marx wants to work to determine historical tools that could help him know why has the world change a lot threw out the years. He explains social problems and how people have been affected society as well. In the book titled “Why Marx Was Right” by Terry Eagleton, he gives examples of the theories, problems, and many other

He does not want violence to exist or other type of social problems to affect people’s well living. Eagleton states that “it believes in the possibility of a perfect society, without hardship, suffering, violence or conflict. Under communism there will be no rivalry, selfishness, passiveness, competition or inequality. Nobody will be superior or inferior to anyone else” (64). Eagleton discusses various points that clarify the way Karl Marx explains his purposes of changing the future. Well, he wants people to live better in a way where they feel comfortable and they would not be scared by the presence of violence to suddenly appear and hurt their loved ones. First, Eagleton mentions The German Ideology, where “he rejects the idea of communism as an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself” (65). Marx wanted communism to stop being guided from someone that would not let it be extendable to a better future. Second, Marx mentions The Civil War in France, “Marx writes that the revolutionary workers have no ideals to realize, but to set free the elements of the new society with which the old collapsing bourgeois society is itself pregnant. The hope for a better future cannot just be wistful “wouldn’t be nice if…” if it is to be more than an idle fantasy, a radically different future must be not only desirable, but feasible; and to be feasible, it has to be anchored in the realities of the present” (69). With his

He states that “It is a form of economic determinism. Art, religion, politics, law, war, morality, historical change: all these are seen in the crudest terms as nothing more than reflections of the economy or class struggle” (107). Marx was a materialist, he believed that nothing existed, but only the matter of who had more material things and who had less. He was more interested in having power and not rights. Eagleton makes a good argument about how Marx is coming up with many things that cannot lead to living in a world of Utopia. Marx has come to study the distinctions of social classes, but he is not focusing on whether someone is professional or what is his occupation. He is not worried about someone’s religion, race, or ethnicity. He is worried about who is classified as being part of a majority, minority, and the working class. He states that “Marxism does not define class in terms of style, status, income, accent, occupation or whether you have ducks or Degas on the wall” (160). Also, he says that capitalism is formed by these classes because they spend their money, work, and pay other workers. Marx focuses on how capitalism is being formed and how society classes are making it grow more and more threw out the years. He came up with the idea of fighting for who has more and who has less, but rather for wanting to fight for human rights. “Marx himself seems to have viewed social class as a form of