Marxism And Capitalism Essay Research Paper Modern

Marxism And Capitalism Essay, Research Paper

Modern Marx?s theoretical work is the understanding of the nature of human

beings and how they have constructed their historical world. Marx is considered

a modernist because his views and theories fit the meaning of Modernity, which

are human freedom and the right to free choice. To Marx, Capitalism is a barrier

to the notion of human freedom and choice. Five aspects of his political theory

which are modern is how he views human nature, effects of Capitalism on human

natures with emphasis on significance of labor, class struggles within

Capitalism, the demise of Capitalism and the need for the transition to

Communism. Marx belief of human nature is that it changes over time; it is

historical and dynamic. In understanding human nature, it is important to

understand what part labor plays in human nature. ?To be Human is to labor,?

(88) therefore Marx believes that Humans work in the world with other Humans in

exchange with nature to get what they desire. Thus since human nature is dynamic

so are humans? wants and desires. In order to achieve one?s wants and

desires one must labor with others around them and with nature. Since labor is

the activity of a group, the ever-changing world created through the labor of

those groups also creates the humans themselves and directly affects them.

Through labor, humanity creates and is responsible for the world that they live

in. Marx suggests that Capitalism leads to the centralization and concentration

of living spaces of where people lives, means of production, monopolies and the

distribution of more power to the bourgeoisie. The success of Capitalism is

directly connected to capital and wage labor. Capitalism?s goal is to increase

profits called accumulation; profits then reinvested else where to make more

capital. ? . . . like the buying and selling of an object in the capitalist

market, but in this case the exchange is money for the ability of labor, what

Marx calls labor power.? (xxv) Capitalism flourishes by extracting surplus

value, or profit, from the commodities produced by the working class. Without

capitals and profits there are obviously no wages and a place to do any type of

labor power; and without wage labor capital can not increase itself. Both are

dependent on each other for the flourishing of Capitalism. Capitalism is a form

of life that does not do justice to human abilities and capacities; it is a

division from basic powers to humans and the exploitations of human workers.

Workers are forced to sell their labor power to capitalists and capitalists have

no choice but are forced to exploit labor to gain capital; therefore the

laborers are commodities themselves in the capitalist market. As the result of

Capitalism, labor has been under admonition and oppression. Instead of picturing

the world as it is, Capitalism pictures the world in a distorted view. A view

that leads to the alienation of the true is meaning of human nature. The view

that places the products of laborers more important than the laborers

themselves; thus the laborers are objectified. Laborers then do not realize that

they are the ones who are in control of product that they produce. ?Alienated

labor hence turns the species-existence of man, and also nature as his mental

species capacity, into an existence alien to him, into the means of his

individual existence.? (64) The distorted view leads to the miscognition of

self of the working class who are cut off from their essential powers. They fail

to realize that the world is of their own making and that they have the ability

to create and recreate the world in which that they live in. Marx?s theory of

privileging of economic matters places an emphasis on class struggles that are

related to the forces of production as well as the relations of productions.

Economics is the production of the exchange of goods and services through labor

arrangements. In every society there is a way to distribute goods and services

called a mode of production. The mode of production is the combination of the

forces of productions; like raw materials, technology or labor forces; and the

relations of productions or the relationship among human beings related to

forces of production. One?s relations of productions in a Capitalist society

determine one?s location in the mode of production, that is, their class. In a

Capitalist society everyone is located in a class, either the class of the

bourgeoisie (capitalist) or the proletariat (working class). More important then

any talent or skill, the class position is the fundamental factor that

determines one?s life as a human being. To be bourgeois (capitalist) is to

have many property of one?s own; to be proletariat is having no property and

living by the rules of the bourgeoisie. ?The bourgeoisie keeps more and more

doing away with . . . th

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