Marx and Weber

Marx and Weber

Karl Marx, 1818-1883

Karl Marx is known to be a great philosopher, historian, and social scientist. He is considered to be the most dominant socialist in the 19th century. He was a communist whose works have inspired and given ground to the communists of 20th century. His impression on the people during 1980s has been incredible that they called themselves “Marxists” including Chinese & Russians. Soviet Communism was the one adaptation of Marxism. Karl Marx is the most influential modern thinker and the greatest social scientist of the two preceding centuries.

Karl Marx was a son of a prosperous lawyer. He was a man of thoughts not action yet his thoughts motivated people to act in an aggressive manner towards execution of the thoughts. His father wanted him to be a lawyer but he dreamt for professorship in philosophy. He had to face with some governmental issues therefore he could not fulfil his dream to be a lecturer and instead became an intellectual outsider and critic and a teacher of revolution. He earned PHD Degree and began writing weekly newspaper which turned out to be a great fame for him. In short he lived his life as a revolutionary writer and an exiled person. He and his family lived in London for the rest of the life in extremely poor conditions which also contributed to his writings over capitalism. (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

Marx' capitalism is idiosyncratic. His argument evolves around the inter-change of commodities over the advancement of capital which is obviously money, which purposes generation of profit via procurement of commodities and their conversion into other properties which is subjected to increased pricing and consequently capitulate profit.

Das Kapital is one of his major writings which particularly denotes to his work on capitalism. He explains about his theory of capitalism its vitality, and its leaning toward self-devastation. Das Kapital is about extra-value of labour and its upshots to capitalism. This work would add to a good understanding of economic, history and sociology knowledge. It talks about system, development and future of capitalism in society. Marx corresponds to different nature of commodities, wages and relationships between worker and capitalist. This study encircles how workers are oppressed and exploited by the capitalist mode of production. He says that capitalist system id unable to sustain profits as this system is itself unbalanced. He describes that traditionally people buy properties to use them while capitalists purchase them to make use of it in terms of creating more profit. He further says that capitalist use money to make labour functional over their commodities however, a labour works more than they are paid. Capitalist do this as they are in power in terms of money and status. (G. Teeple, 2013)

Karl Marx is to study for his ideas over several philosophies of life. Marxism philosophizes history and a canon to economics. This concept portrays about how societies transform with the passage of time. Marxist believed that they have to ability to analyze human history and ...