Karl Marx’s Views on Today’s Society

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In the market place of today there are high skilled workers and low skilled workers. The high skilled workers have control of the market due to their credentials as the owners did in the past, since the market has moved from the owners operating the businesses. The low skilled workers fall into the same class, as they were under Marx’s theory as workers however their equivalent is to that of a serf or a peasant. It seems that Marx would be disgusted with what the market place had become today. Marx believed that in order to get things done legislatively, make sure that the laws are followed and that the low skilled workers still have a job, the high skilled workers had to take control. This control allows the market to function rather smoothly and allow society to function in the same manner. The more society evolves the more it deviates from Marx’s belief of the market place. He mentions public schools in the Communist Manifesto and how all children should be forced to attend them. However this does not appear to have been directed towards higher education. The right to education is not apparent in his work since education leads to high skills. There cannot be a functioning market if there are no low skilled workers to take the jobs of laborers or food production. The theory that every person is entitled to higher education hinders the market place and gives an unearned self worth to the students. There is a need for some higher education but not to the point where people are so far in debt that they cannot function in the market place. This creates a deficit for the graduates since the payment amounts of their student loans per month would not allow them to take the lower paying jobs. A student loan payment of 500 dollars wou... ... middle of paper ... ...id believe that the market needs a class system to function, the class system of today would not be sufficient in Marx opinion. While technological advancement is seen as a good thing today Marx would not be so agreeable, he would have seen it as a threat to the worker as the reliance on machines grows outstripping the need for laborers. The laws of inheritance are also in contrast to the beliefs of Marx. Finally the healthcare of today would not sit well with Marx due to his feeling of class and the belief that commodities and resources should be spent on the good of the society. In conclusion Marx would not approve of the market today, at the most he would be intrigued by how it works and function when his philosophies show it could not. Works Cited Marx, K., Engels, F. & Puchner, M. (2005). The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings. New York: Barnes & Noble.

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