Basically, Marx was propositioning the human society is suppose to behave over the course of time, in a direction towards a focus on science, rather than a focus on how to reach to the top of the social ladder. Frank Scott (2000) states:.
A century ago, Marxism was the economic science theory that many academics championed as the rationale for government control, since it appealed to the masses but could be controlled by the elite. (p. A-8).
What Marx wanted to do was to address the bourgeois society that change from alienation was positive and that in the age of industrialization, society must focus more on science than status. These concepts of power over the proletariat can be looked upon as mere windows dressing for a social system whose reality was different (Daniels, 1962). .
What did Marx have in mind for society with his concept of socialism? Socialism is not society that is structured and contains streamlined individuals. The aim of socialism, then, is man. .
"It is to create a form of production and an organization of society which man can overcome alienation from his product, from his work, from his fellow man, from himself, and from nature; in which he can return to himself and grasp the world. (Fromm, 1961, p. 59).
Paul Tillich describes Marx's theory on socialism as a " resistance movement against the destruction of love in social reality (Fromm, 1961, p. 59). Therefore, Marx concluded in .
Marx's Concept of Man, by Erich Fromm (1961), "Communism, as such, is not the aim of human development" (p. 58). Clearly, Marx believes that society should be able to grasp their desires and wants in life and be freed from alienation. Therefore, they should not repress their radical ideas by ignoring what society had engraved into their minds from the start. This concept of repression leads me to the discourse on Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. This theory seems to parallel Marx in many aspects.
