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Karl Marx created the famous theory that class struggle is the basis for historical change as well as capitalism being overcome by communism and a classless society. Although his argument is not relative to today's day and age, his collective thoughts make for an obscure but questionable theory based on what was going on in the world at that time in history.                                        

Many followers of Marx still try to uphold his theology by claiming that his works still matter. But the reality of the matter is that nothing worked, none of his theories were true. Well, if his prophesies are false, why do we still read and study about him? Because of simply this. It puts us in the mind of another being, behind the papers he wrote, and in the era he lived in. He helped expand the mind of economic choices and what they led up too. In his instance, he thought it would lead up to a dictatorship.

Middle class disappearance and growing class polarization were part of this theory. The polarization of classes means "the inevitable historical process of the class structure becoming increasingly polarized." These guesses turned out to be opposite of that he predicted. As we know now, the middle class is the largest class in the United Stated, so it obviously did not work out for him.  

He also tried to predict the middle class' end in poverty, which, even during his lifetime, was stated to be wrong. And finally, he came up with the thought that there would be a proletarian revolution. This is where the middle class would try to overthrow the so called 'bourgeoisie', which from what I've read is the higher class society and exploiters of the working class. His inevitable revolution never seemed to come around.  

Marx's theory works under the situation where the proletariat forces itself as ruler over the other classes (going against what our nation stands for). I'm sure he thought that the richer class would dictate because they were known to be more successful. But with the knowledge that the middle class was larger, it could have been the start of the revolution he was initially predicting. He was aware that a ruling needed to happen so that socialism would be in order.


And from socialism evolves communism. Similarities in both parties were the first recognition of dictatorship. Their motto's included the same will and act of what they stood for The socialists', "From each according to his ability, to each according to his work" to the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Their ideology was to unite the workers of the world (in the said image above). The word 'socialism' was in fact taken over by Leninist-Stalinist socialism, which is now known as communism. All these ideas originated in democratic countries who wanted to open trade and work economics with other countries. What would've happened if we had stayed on the trail of socialism?

From the blog article and from my own thoughts, it is easy to see that socialism is not exactly existing as it had been in the past. Wanting to have a worldwide brotherhood and togetherness seems great, but it's damn near impossible to get everyone to agree or put their differences aside. Their idea was for an alternative society that had been created through the process of Marx's theories and the act of creating socialism. Little did he know that he was missing key points to having a successful prediction.