Imran Khan
Section 8
Second Installment
My first installment was a small summary of Karl Marx’s life
and some of the pieces he has written over the course of his life. In this
installment I would like to discuss a little bit about Karl Marx’s theory on
social class. Karl Marx was one of the first social scientists to study and
focus on the social classes of people. His major point and theory that he
believed is that “one’s social class dictates one’s social life. He was
basically stating that whatever your social class may be in a society is basically
how your life will be lived, so if you are considered to be lower class you
will live a life with many hard times and lots of poverty. Marx even had his
own theory of how people would be sorted and be placed into these certain classes.
He basically states whoever is in ownership of what the people want and need to
survive and prosper on are going to be the people of high class or wealth in
his ideal society. These are the people that own land and factories mainly.
Marx had also said that the world is so full of wealth that he did not
understand how so much of it is in poverty, he said that capitalism would be
the solution to this problem. As you guys can probably see Marx had some very
radical theories and views on society, which is why it led him to being
expelled from Germany as I mentioned in my first installment. This is just a
small portion of his beliefs, if you would like to learn more I really would
recommend reading some of his writings to get a better idea of how he thinks
and philosophizes on different social and political issues.
Link to First
Installment:
http://cophilosophy.blogspot.com/2015/11/karl-marx-by-imran-khan-8.html
Sources:
http://study.com/academy/lesson/karl-marxs-theories-class-differentiation-and-revolution-socialism-capitalism.html
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