Karl Marx Research Paper

Brian Avila

Professor Wesley Johnson

English Comp 1

October 18, 2016

Karl Marx For the most part, people approve on the note that we need to progress our economic system one way or another. It lurks over our planet through extreme consumption and distracts us with irrelevant advertising, like the homeless without food, healthcare, etc. The preparations Marx had planned for the problems of the world now sound a bit senseless; he thought we should not only eliminate private property, but we should not be allowed to own things as well. It’s like wanting to prohibit watching television; it’s going to spark a battle with human behavior which would lead to bigger difficulties. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t reject Marx too quickly as a tyrant deriving

To be pleased at work, Marx inscribed that workers need “to see themselves in the objects they have created” (Marx). Labor offers us a chance to show what’s good inside us and to give it a stable form in some sort of object or service independent of us. In Marx’s vision, all of us are generalists inside. We weren’t born to do one thing only, as it’s merely the economy that uses us for their own greedy needs. They push us fully to one discipline alone, making us one-sided and dependent and depressed spiritually and physically to the condition of a

This is partly because capitalists seek increasingly big risks in order to make even bigger profits, and this speculation disrupts prices and employment. However, Capitalism isn’t just volatile because of competition and human fragility. In Marx’s view, it is inherently unstable–a force that constantly overpowers itself. Ironically, we have crisis in Capitalism not because of shortages, but because of abundance; we have too much stuff. Our factories and systems are so efficient that we could give everyone on this planet a car, a house, access to a decent school and hospital. Few of us would need to work. However, we don’t liberate ourselves. Marx thinks this is ridiculous; he relates the outcome as some form of masochism. In 1700, it took the labor of almost all adults to feed a nation. Today a developed nation needs hardly anyone to be employed in farming. Making cars needs practically no employees. Unemployment is currently dreadful and seen as a terrible ill. However, in Marx’s eyes, it is a sign of success; it is the result of our unbelievable productive powers. The job of a hundred people can now be done by one machine. Rather than draw the optimistic conclusion from this, we continue to see unemployment as a curse. Logically, the goal of economics should be to make more and more of us unemployed and to celebrate this fact as progress rather than as