Marx believed that in the future there would be a state of communism where there would be no inequality and your ownership or lack of wealth, due to how much land you owned. ... This defines a group of individuals who have a common background and work together. ...
Weber Karl Marx and Max Weber, both social scientists, devoted much of their work to the defining of capitalism through understanding its creation, causes, workings, and destiny. ... He believed that each phase of history was defined by and ultimately driven by the dominate mode of production of the time. ... Capitalism to Marx is the natural stage in the history man, it is not the last stage but creates the platform for the last stage, communism, were man no longer experiences class struggle. ...
Introduction Karl Marx is considered as the father of "communism." ... To define it first, globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. ... Because of production, man can find a meaning of his own life, that he can be productive by producing something through his own work and effort and that man should be able to define his own self through his creativity and his desire to produce something that he wants and by this he...
(Marx-Engels Reader P.483) Weber does not agree that class conflict is what defines history, but he does say that a class, though not being a community, has the possibility for producing societal action. ... One thing that I believe both Marx and Weber didn't look at is the fact that whatever the basis for our means of producing life's necessities, whether it be capitalism or communism, is that we are by nature animals that are driven to survive. ...
Marx calls all these "superstructure," which he defines as those "whose main role it is to contain or provide a controlled release for the deep, bitter tensions that arise from the clash between the powerful and the powerless" (136)*. ...
