A Marxian Critique of Capitalism: A Contemporary Approach

A Marxian Critique of Capitalism: A Contemporary Approach

Abstract

This design is intended to expose the nature as capitalism as well as its graces and faults. An exposure of the Marxian notice of the commercial system and how marx pressed for the relief of the system with the induction of communism through illiberalism shall also be illuminated. It should be noted that according to marx, the only was to attain this thing is through a mass rebellion bloody revolution. Hence a critical evaluation of the Marxian notice of the commercial system as well as his suggestion of a bloody revolution will be done to see how valid these suggestions are when applied to the contemporary period.

later, a workable volition result/ recommendation shall also be done in place of Karl Marx’s own result/ suggestion.

Also, while numerous workers moment are indeed better off, numerous others are met. They’re occasional sweat shop conditions indeed in countries like the United States, and there are numerous countries where the maturity of workers are as relentlessly exploited moment as they were during the commercial period in Karl Marx’s time. Hence the general trend on which Marx had his eyes still prevails the rich still get richer and more important, while the maturity of ordinary workers can count themselves lucky if they’ve steady employment and more or less acceptable benefits. In Africa for illustration, the income gap between the rich and the rest of society has been wealth generally translates into an imbalance of political power and influence as well, numerous commercial countries tend to be, for all practical purposes, conspiracies rather than genuine republic. Although their popular institutions may be complete and running, their programs tend to be determined by fat elites much more than by citizens at large.

It may have been time in the 19th century that workers had to work under workshop conditions, that the workday lasted twelve to fourteen hours, that occasionally children were literally chained to machines to work, that plant safety didn’t live, that workers were deprived of education, and utmost of all, that stipend were so low that workers infrequently could go to buy the effects they produced. But all these have since come veritably different. Capitalist in the 19th century may have been rather brutal, but the system has been reformed. stipend have increased, all feathers of benefits are handed by employers or social security system, and moment’s artificial workers occasionally enjoy and consume more material goods than indeed members of the old political cartoons that showed the plutocrats with to( p headdresses, fleece tails, and big guts, while depicting workers and their doused families as wasted, restrained smashups, are surely outdated. moment’s workers aren’t as exported and miserable as marx describes them, and the relation of capital and labour isn’t so negative and bad as to justify similar old generalities as “ class struggle ” or “ class war ”.

It should be noted that the below objects aren’t meaningless due to the long and frequently ardius struggle of unions, as well as the extensively increased productivity of artificial labour, the profitable position of numerous workers has significantly bettered since the days of the sedulous revolution.

Chapter One

Preface

. Background To The Study

It has come decreasingly common to hear that capitalism with its exploitative nature is dehumanizing and alienating – that is, alienating man from the product of his own labor, from his own tone, from the society, as well as from nature. This kind of profitable system, because of its exploitative nature of numerous people by many rich individualities, has led to the situation of man’s brutality to man. In this case, gains are made at all cost indeed at the expenditure of mortal life. In this type of profitable system of government, many rich individualities amassed wealth at the expenditure of the maturity and as similar income is distributed inequitably to the detriment of the common man. Hence, Marx was displeased with the system and called for its relief with a better and humane one( communism).

Throughout Karl Marx’s life, the central theme of his jottings and conditioning was centered on man and how to liberate him from the slavery that comes from man’s brutality to man. The subject of Karl Marx’s solicitude has been the insulated existent; an individual disgruntled from other people, from the fruit of his own labor, from nature, and indeed from his own deepest tone and emotion. This doctrine of disaffection in Marxism described the condition of the working class in the commercial system in Karl Marx’s days whereby the workers( proletariats) were exploited and animalized by their employers( the plutocrats bourgeoisie). The product of their labor was taken from them. Hence, Marx called it “ alienated labor ” 1 therefore the worker in the commercial system is animalized and instrumentalized; he’s no longer treated as a mortal being, but as an instrument of product in the hands of the bourgeois employers who use him to their own advantage. Hence, Marx proposed a remedy for this deplorable condition of the workers. His result was the total destruction of the commercial system with its attendant immoralities and the establishment of communism through illiberalism. This result, Marx says, can only be achieved through mass rebellion/ bloody revolution.

told by the gospel of Heraclitus and the dialectic of Hegel, Marx believed that “ conflict is the universal law of progress ” 2. Both Heraclitus and Hegel considered war as good and necessary for progress. Heraclitus in particular, felt that perpetual peace would be undesirable since it would mean social recession and the end of progress. The macrocosm, according to Heraclitus, is a macrocosm of conflicts and clash of contraries, “ we must know that war is common to all the strife is justice, and that all effects come into being and pass down through strife ” 3. As for Hegel, harmony and progress are the results of conflicts. In his dialectic, progress or development is the result( the conflation) of conflict or contradiction between two effects( thesis andanti-thesis). The whole macrocosm, according to Hegel, “ is a tone- protuberance of the absolute Spirit who develops itself through conflicts and contradictions, through thesis, antipode and conflation ” 4.

Marx thus gave the doctrines of both Heraclitus and Hegel social interpretation and maintained that social progress can only come about through class conflicts. Hence he advocates for the total destruction of the commercial system through mass rebellion/ bloody revolution.

still, the question that seems disturbing is the validity and tenability of Karl Marx’s notice of capitalism. The statement of problem is therefore presented below.

Statement Of The Problem

Although we can not but subscribe to the Marxist commination of exploitation of man by man, nonetheless, we can not go on with his commitment to Machiavellianism. For we don’t believe that any means employed to bring about a good end is innocently justified. We hold on the negative that the end doesn’t and can not justify the means.

Accordingly, it’s an wrong in itself to employ a bad means to bring about a good end. We can thus not go on with Marxism in encouraging class conflicts, class enmity and violent revolutions. Nor do we subscribe to the Heraclitan- Hegelian- Marxist dogma that social change and progress can only come about through violent conflicts and bloody revolutions. nothing wins a war these days; in the long run both sides are the disasters. Worst of all, it’s generally the poor and the innocent who are offered as victims to the “ gods of revolution ”. This itself is evil, and an wrong means shouldn’t be used to bring about a good end.

also, although Marx’s intention was to guard the weal of the people, but by calling for a violent revolution, the weal of the people which he was trying to guard will no longer be safe. This is because the violence that goes on with a revolution is a trouble to security of lives and property.

likewise, Marx seems not to be concerned with the system but with the ends of the struggle. This is prone to error because pretensions achieved by proper means are always more continuing and are of endless duration than those achieved by indecorous means. thus, for a lasting peace and stability, it isn’t the end that matters but what matters is the system by which these ends are actually achieved.

To push it further, Marxian proposition of state isn’t so sound as prima facie it may appear. His emphasis on fortified revolution is rather too important and can not be justified especially moment when nations are allowing more in terms of peaceful co-operation rather than war. Who can deny that violence brings with it abomination and destruction of lives( especially the innocent bones ) and property andcounter-revolutionary forces will breed further destruction and insecurity in the society. agreement of controversies by violent revolution is bound to slacken political and social progress. It’s thus beyond all reasonable dubieties that the changes brought about by an fortified and violent revolution is less durable than the changes brought about by peaceful means and system on the one hand, and persuation on the other hand. As I put it, “ patient, unyielding and patient persuation can break indeed the strongest resistance ”.

Going further, Marx’s system ofover-throwing one profitable system and its relief with another is dangerous to the extent that it has noway paved way for enduring stability. Insecurity which this revolution will bring with it, shall always remain alive in the minds of the plutocrats who in turn are bound toover-throw the workers governance at the first available occasion. This will be noway – ending struggle which is unwanted both for nation’s profitable progress, artistic advancement and political stability. This isn’t to say that an rough profitable system shouldn’t be brazened and replaced but the battle shouldn’t be that drastic to the extent that stability would be fugitive.

Also, Marx believes that the only way to bring about a change is through bloody revolution. But he forgets that there are peaceful styles also for bringing about changes. Gandhiji brought change in Indian political and social life without any bloody or violent revolution in the Marxian sense of the term but bynon-violent means and system.

Arguing further, Marx has not realized that on the collapse of state numerous other factors and classes might crop . It should be noted that break- down of capitalism might affect not in communism but in lawlessness from which there might crop some absolutism unconnected in principle to communism.

Eventually, it should be noted that the baby shouldn’t be thrown down alongside with the bath water. But Marx fell prey into this problem. While pressing for the elimination of capitalism and the induction of communism through illiberalism, Marx inescapably threw down hardwork which leads to invention and invention, which in turn encourages briskly profitable and societal development and progress. It’s a known fact that capitalism which leads to faster profitable growth and societal development is as a result of hardwork. thus, while pressing for the elimination of the commercial system, Marx was inescapably barring progress and development from the society.

Having presented the statement of problem, I shall now do to the purpose of study.

Purpose Of The Study

The purpose of this exploration work is presented below

originally, it’s to critically dissect and estimate capitalism with its exploitative nature as put forward by Karl Marx.

Secondly, it’s to objectively weigh the suggestion of mass rebellion/ bloody revolution put forward by Karl Marx as a way of destroying the commercial system to see how valid and tenable this suggestion would be when applied to the contemporary period.

Thirdly, an attempt shall be made to bring out the excrescencies in Karl Marx’s notice of capitalism as well as his suggestion of communism using the tool of mass rebellion/ bloody revolution. later a workable volition result/ recommendation in place of Karl Marx’s own recommendation of bloody revolution as a way of easing the pitiable condition of the working class from the hands of their bourgeois employers shall be prefered.

Having presented the purpose of study, I shall now expose the significance of study.

Significance Of The Study

The significance of this exploration work is enormous. still many of them shall be exposed below

originally, it’ll serve as an logical- cum-critical review of the important esteemed doctrine of Karl Marx review of capitalism and his offer of communism through illiberalism as an volition to the commercial system using the tool of mass rebellion/ bloody revolution.

Secondly, it’ll serve as a medium of courage to all those, especially the poor who are victims of the exploitative, alienating and dehumanizing condition in the society in which they find themselves, that there’s a workable result to their problems if only they can unite with one voice, but which mustn’t inescapably affect to a bloody revolution as recommended by Karl Marx.

Thirdly, it’ll serve as a clarion call for all workers of the world to unite, as concinnity is a base for a successful kick against an unwanted system of government in the society. In other words, this exploration work will inseminate on the minds of the people( the working class) the spirit of concinnity and co-operation which is a necessary tool for the achievement of their freedom from exploitation and dehumanization in the hands of their employers by enlightening them on the way forward on how to carry out their struggle of freedom from the rough nature of the commercial system. As Karl Marx puts it, “ the plebeians have nothing to lose but their chains. They’ve a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTLESS, UNITE! ” 5

Fourthly, this exploration work will also serve as a interference to the many rich individualities in the society who are agents of marginalization of the poor and less privileged. It’ll go a long way to tell them that when you so much push someone to the extent that he has gotten to the wall, he may have no other option than to turn and face you for a fight.

Eventually, this exploration work will as well be of great significance to critically estimate the position of those proponents and thinkers who sought for result to similar kind of problems( like the bones posed by the plutocrat) following the pattern/ testament of Karl Marx’s mass rebellion/ bloody revolution.

Having exposed the significance of the study, I’ll now do to the compass of study.

Compass Of The Study

This exploration work shall in compass be limited to the doctrine of capitalism as well as the Marxian notion of capitalism. An attempt shall be made to explain Karl Marx’s notice of the commercial system and how he pressed for a communist society free from the exploitation of the working class posed by the plutocrats. later a critical evaluation of Karl Marx’s notice of the commercial system as well as his idea of replacing it with communism through illiberalism will be made to see how valid and tenable they are. later a conclusion as well as a recommendation will be made.

Having made known the compass of study, I shall now move to the methodology.

Methodology Of The Study

The system of this exploration work shall be logical- cum-critical in nature. Analytic in the sense that the issue at stake will be examined in detail. It has to do with a thorough breakdown; a abstract explanation, a detailed explanation of the issue at stake. And critical in that, it isn’t a negative appraisal, but rational, unprejudiced, eloquent and fair appraisal whether positive or negative. To be “ critical ” of entered ideas is consequently not the same thing as rejecting them it consists rather in seriously asking oneself whether the ideas in question should be reformed, modified or conserved, and in applying one’s entire intellectual and imaginative intelligence to the hunt for an answer.

As a result of the below, accoutrements to make the exploration work will be gotten from the library as well as other applicable sources.