1. On page 8 Karl Marx states, "But not only the relation of one nation to others, but also the whole internal structure of the nation itself depends on the development reached by its production.." I found it quite different how he refers to the more elite nations based solely upon the fact of which is producing more where his definition of producing more is reproduction. With that being said, can that still be said for today? Does this theory fit?
2.Throughout the entire reading I noticed that a lot of the problems Marx describes at the time of writing this sounded quite familiar to some that we encounter today still in society. With that being said, the way he talks about communism's problems or hurdles it would have to jump to be successful it reminds me a lot of our democracy today so would communism have been an improvement? Why/Why Not?
To answer question 2, I believe that communism would have been an improvement. On page 27, Marx says "...it is just as empirically established that, by the overthrow of the existing state of society by the communist revolution and the abolition of private property which is identical with it, this power, which so baffled the German theoreticians, will be dissolved...the real intellectual wealth of the individual depends entirely on the wealth of his real connections." He also states, “Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present states of things.” He believes money, land, ownership of the capital, and human labor-power to create surplus-value lies at the heart of the establishment's power. If the people who hated the corrupt power of government became the government, society would be able to function more steadily.
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