Isn't Karl Marx correct?

Question

I am not an Obama supporter, just a realist...

"Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the medieval commune(4): here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany); there taxable “third estate” of the monarchy (as in France); afterwards, in the period of manufacturing proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."

With Lobbying in our government, isn't this profoundly true for today?

Answer 1

Communism is a great concept, but that is all it is.  A true Utopian society doesn't have wants.  Their needs are met, but they don't want more.  In a real world situation, people will want more.  Hence the capitalistic approach of working harder to get more/ahead.  Communism also doesn't take into account the lazy people...  doing just enough to get by, but not satisfying the needs of the community.  It was a noble idea that was corrupted from the get go and failed miserably.  Just ask anybody from China...  who is not on the government payroll.

Also, Marx never worked a day in his life, he mooched off of his buddy and complained about everything while putting a few beers back every night.

Answer 2

No!

Answer 3

5 dollar foot long

Answer 4

he was correct

Answer 5

Yes, actually Karl Marx was right about a lot of things. The system in kapitalist countries is in the hands of the rich, the bourgeoisie. While the labourers, the poor, and the middle-class have the duty of working and consuming.

Of course, this can not go on forever. How can a system based on exploitation function endlessly? One day there will be nothing left to exploit.

Am I going to be asked THE question now?

''Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?''

No I haven't, I'm just being realistic.

It's not all black&white, maybe we need somthing diffrent than communism or kapitalism.

Answer 6

you're kidding me right?  The last fifty years has been anything but a time of the haves ruling the have nots, instead the academic elitist leftists have found one way after another to wear down the middle and upperclasses to make us either apathetic or poor and dependent on the government to meet our needs.  Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Fuel Taxes, Income Taxes, Capital Gains Taxes, and taxes on business have menat one thing, at the end of the day the individual pays more to the ruling elite, the new aristocracy, who then if they are democrats seek to spend like crazy to control our lives and if they are republicans instead have sadly spent like valley girls with daddies credit card on random pork projects (not that dems are immune to pork by a long shot, visit W. Virginia sometime and see how much is named after Robert Byrd).  Marx is wrong in so so many ways, including the one you've cited...

Answer 7

Geeez, where did you go to school? The Kremlin?

No,. Marx was all wet and it cost millions of lives to prove it.

Answer 8

Of course he was correct -- Just look how well things worked out in the USSR! </sarcasm>

Answer 9

No!

Karl Marx is communism