Karl Marx (Group 5, Section 001.)

Karl Marx, probably the most recent of philosophers to influence the study of political-science, developed one of the most powerful ideologies in the world today: the "haves" and the "have-nots." In Marx's argument against a free-market society, the unfair relationship between the producers and consumers is unfair; the consumers are being exploited for the betterment of the "few" who own industry and who own stocks in the economy. Because of this causal relationship, a "classless" society will eventually collapse and fail. The internal contradictions embedded in the free-market, he argued, will cause nations to become economically stagnant. In the Marxist view, the benefits 0f the society should be shared with everyone, and not just those who, as Adam Smith suggested long before Marx, "have the cheapest products to sell."