What is the meaning of society? It?s a simple word but with a very complicated definition. Society is our own everyday reality. It?s features such as economics, culture, language and philosophy is what unites individuals and creates a society. In the book, ?The Discovery of Society?, written by Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky we are able to capture the ideas and beliefs of a variety of social thinkers. All of these thinkers had a different perspective towards what a society needs to survive and maintain itself afloat.
One of these social thinkers was Karl Marx (1818-1883). He was a German political philosopher and revolutionist. Marx was very concern with the history of class struggle. He felt that the history of society was a history itself of the struggles that existed between the ruling and the oppressed social classes. In Marx?s time, slaves were considered the ?have not?s? and were the ones doing all the work while the ?have?s? were taking advantage of their effort.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
A portrait of Karl Marx.
English: Cover of the French edition of the Divisi...According to Marx, the economy was organized around industrial production and commercial exchange, which explains why he classified the bourgeois society into two main classes. These classes were; the capitalist who owned the factories, banks and the goods to trade and the proletarians who owned nothing but their own labor power. Marx felt that the division of classes was what was responsible for the conflict and suffering of all society. This is what encouraged Marx to believe that chaos was the only way in which classes would break up and no longer exist.
Marx was able to get his point across in the modern socialist doctrine, better known as the Communist Manifesto. Even though, Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of all his revolutionary activities he did set a great influence on all communist...