A Comparison Of Wells’ And Marx’s Ideas On Class Struggles And The Future

We grow up envisioning the future through television programming such as the Jetsons and Star Trek. Through optimistic eyes, we see the future as merely a further advancement of our technology, society, and comforts of living. Inversely, because of natural fear, we never portray the future as a continuation or development of the problems we face today: Diseases will always have cures, wars will always end, and social struggles will always be resolved. H. G. Wells and Karl Marx challenged these sanguinely views of the advancement of human society and identify the faults that would lead to our destruction. Wells, through the Time Machine, illustrates how the increasing wealth gap and the industrial revolution diminish our capabilities as humans. Though Marx is confident about the future, through The Communist Manifesto and dialectical materialism, he describes how the introduction of unskilled labor and capitalism is a step backwards in our development. Their ideas share the common theme of identifying and facing our problem; however, they disagree of whether the downfall is as a class oriented problem.

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Unlike Marx, Wells believed that all of human kind was affected by the industrial revolution. He thought that thought the proletarians were becoming repetitive, and like slaves, the bourgeoisie were become mindless and uncreative creatures. They had become so dependant on the lower class for all their goods that they forgot how to do everything. They did not need any of the skills to survive anymore, so they simply forgot them. Wells believed that the industrial revolution was classless problem. It affected each human in a negative way. It simply took away some of our human characteristics and allowed us to become savage, repetitive, and mindless people.

Both Marx and Wells had seen the revolution as a problem. Wells focused on how it affected daily lives while Marx saw how capitalism affected it. Marx believed that the poor were the only ones suffering while Wells believed that it was a classless problem that turned us into animals. Whatever the reasons were, they were the first ones to acknowledge the problems we still face today: a growing wealth gap and a continuous path towards uniformitarianism and mindlessness.

Both Marx and Wells believed that the future was not a steady line towards advancement. Marx believed that though the industrial revolution had its many faults and Labor Revolution would allow for a society that would be classless and even better than the society prior to the revolution. Wells, more negatively, saw humanity going on a linear path to destruction. He believed humans would become mindless and useless and turn into the animals that we are.

ctical manner. He thought that there was always a thesis (advancement), antithesis (setback), and synthesis (further advancement). He thought that in 1848 we were in the antithesis that is capitalism. Factories, industry, and large businesses impeded the a

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