Analysis #4 - Marxist Theory

 

Marxism is a fouled up attempt to create a society where  everyone is equal in economic status, political status, etc. Unfortunately those that attempted to create societies based on this theory instead made it come out as a totalitarian society. This meaning there was one person above them all calling all the shots making the society therefore unequal, since Marxism was meant to make a non-class system with no government, not one with two classes and a single person overseeing the whole thing. The mistranslation of Marxism also has led to several other versions, such as socialism and communism. As a result, this caused a lot of turmoil and as said before, various forms of Marxism that played on several elements of the original theory, without actually following it. One element that is played a great deal is that there is not such thing as private property amongst this theory's followers; this is something seen as a major proponent of socialism. 
This theory of Marxism, communism and socialism unfortunately still exist in many countries for example, Korea. North Korea to be more precise, since as a result in the severe change in government, caused the country to split in two, the northern part remaining communistic.
Of the many attempts to design a form of society that brought all classes into unity, Marx's dream of it coming true did not work out:
"Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes" (p. 657, Marx).
This is in fact what continues today. Marx's original dream of a class-less society, where everyone was equal is something the world isn't ready for yet. It may never be ready for. Marx's ideal society, a utopia if you will, is something that may never exist in any realm of possibility, except in a dead man's dreams.

Works Cited
Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.