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Problems of Marxism

 

He believes that individuals should be equal, not divided into two distinct worlds. Marx describes the current individual in society saying that, In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality" (ibid). .
             Marx and communism desires to correct society so that all individuals could benefit without a particular class being desolately alienated from the sources of production and services. "Marx speaks for communism saying, all that we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the laborer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it. Marx declares if communism is implemented that, In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to" (ibid).
             III CAPITALISM.
             A refined distinction between socialism and communism is clearly problematic. Writers and theoreticians provide a bleak discussion and conclusion on these issues and in numerous times they are interchangeably used, thus, defining capitalism in one way or another alienates the distinct characteristics of these concepts. Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff define capitalism by presenting three key components: "markets (determining price and wages), private ownership of the means of production (including labor power), and, thus, wage labor. The second, communism (or socialism), is generally defined as the absence of the same three components" (Resnick and Wolff, 1996:119). .
             In capitalists states wherein the political-economic system is primarily based on private ownership and profit, creativities and full expression human potentials are virtually eliminated, the individuals living in this kind of social condition strives simply to survive by selling their labor.


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