I dont understand what Karl Marx society, culture and individual person was. Can anyone explain it for me?

Question

I do not understand what kind of society and culture he wanted along with the individual person

Answer 1

Marx is considered the father of communism. He came up with his ideas out of all the ineqaulity and harm that capitalism had bred. He wants a classless society where nobody has a social or economical advantage over anyone else. He belived in the power of the middle class worker and that they have the ability to overthrow the system because they are the most represented class in society.

Answer 2

Karl Marx is a fascinating individual who worked to set humanity free from the chains of capitalism.  He set forth several important ideas depicting the problems of capitalism and the solution.  Here are a few of his important contributions to the world.

First: Alienation

Marx dealt with the alienation of society. Alienation occurs when people do not feel connected to their life or their own humanity. The cause of this, in many cases, is the way in which people work. In the 19th century, as well as today, many people would sell their labor to an employer and the employer would decided how to use this labor. Consider this; if you wanted to sell a car to someone else, the two of you would negotiate a settlement that you would both agree upon. The buyer would not simply say, "give me the car at this price or else," and yet that is what occurs in the labor market. Laborers sell their labor, their product, but they are unable to negotiate how their labor will be used. The domination of the means of production by a few capitalists forces laborers to take whatever job they are given, regardless of pay or benefits. The end result is alienation; the laborer feels more like an object than a human being, because he is treated like an object by the capitalist. Also, consider this point; if employees and laborers are considered objects to be used at the will of the capitalist, what prevents a person from looking at other members of society as objects? If two people are walking down the street and the first person robs the other because he views the second person as an object and a means to make some money, how is this different than the capitalist "robbing" the laborer? Humanity becomes objectified under capitalism.

Second: Surplus Labor and Surplus Value

The concept of surplus labor states that while a laborer may work 10 hours in a day, he may only see the benefit of an hour of work; his minimum wage. During the whole day, the worker is producing goods or some other product which may then be sold. The profits from these products then go to the capitalist, not the actually producer. Why should anyone work hard if they are not going to see the full benefit of their work? The United States is a perfect example of this concept in action; Americans spend more time at work, while getting less done, than in other industrialized nations. Marx proposed a system where everyone in business or company owned the means of production jointly. Marx never suggested that the government would own all property, such as homes. When workers owned the means of production jointly, they would have control over who would be their boss and other important decisions. People would be paid based on the amount of work done, quality as well as quantity of work done, the social necessity of the work, and the amount of training or schooling a person had received. This concept is laid out quite clearly in Das Kapital. Marx never said a doctor would make the same as a janitor. In fact, this would be anti-Marxist, because it would lead to alienation, as a described above. The end result of this system is people would be paid for the work they did, it would encourage people to work hard, and a few people at the top of the corporate ladder would not get rich based on the hard work of employees. Bosses and leaders would be paid more as more responsibility is accepted, but not at the rates that can be seen in the United States today.

Third: Dictatorship of the Proletariat

This is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Marxist thought. In Marxism, all forms of the "state" are considered dictatorships. Democracy is a dictatorship, because it ensures the survival of the bourgeoisie and prevents the proletariat from coming to power, or in other words, it prevents people from having a say in how their government is run. The dictatorship of the proletariat is simply the reverse of the present systems. Instead of a small minority being in control, the masses would come to power. This power would be exercised through bodies (in Russia they were called soviets, although the true soviet was disposed of by Stalin) that would be both legislative and executive. Delegates would be elected by universal suffrage and be paid the wage of an average worker to prevent officials from becoming corrupt or from becoming out of touch with the people. Delegates would also be easily removable if any delegate violated the will of the people. The end result of this dictatorship of the proletariat is the "withering away of the state," where the state plays less and less a role in the lives of the people, and therefore, the dictatorship of the state, whether proletariat, democratic, or whatever, would cease to exist.

While no other user has given a correct answer, Tomba's answer is the most incorrect.  Criticism and self-criticism was never a part of Marxist thought and developed during the Chinese revolution in the 1920's.  Furthermore, China is no longer considered communist even by most capitalists, the reason being, the Chinese Communist Party rejected Maoism following Mao Zedong's death.  While no-one came out an condemned Mao in the same manner that Khrushchev condemned Stalin, Mao's policies have been reversed and severely criticized.  One must also understand that Mao largely ignored Marxism, particularly on the important issue of the peasant revolution.  Marx, as well as Lenin and Trotsky in Russia, rejected the peasant revolution because the peasantry cannot form an independent political movement.  The peasantry will either align itself with the proletariat or the bourgeoisie, but it cannot form a stable communist government.  I would suggest to Tomba that he actually do research before saying something so idiotic.  Why does the United States do so much business with China? because China has become the perfect capitalist country: the fascist country.

Answer 3

What Marx wanted and what he envisioned are separate issues.  Marx wanted the individual person to work for the collective good of society and everything to manifest from that basic structure.

Answer 4

HE WAS BASICALLY COMMUNIST SO TO SPEAK

Answer 5

Marxism opposes Capitalism and dogmatic theory. It mandates centralization of ownership and national production and purges the masses through criticism and self-criticism thus aligning the masses in the arduous struggle for world domination. The best example of Marxism today is The Communist Socialist Republic of China which still controls the thinking of the people and the collective wealth of the country. The beliefs and doctrines of their former ruler Mao Tsetung still dictate Chinese policy. Mao Tsetung is responsible for the torture and killing of tens of millions of his own countrymen during his life.