If Karl Marx was alive today.........?

Question

Karl Marx was actually very intelligent. After seeing the effects of communism and problems with it. While observing the successes of current democratic systems. He would change his position?

I mean ...... Do you think he would change his position>??

Answer 1

If Karl Marx's model was intended to bring equality, humanity, and peace to country states, if that was what he wanted, then he would be spinning in his grave because Marxism clearly has not achieved that.

His model became the political system where government after government inherently practice corruption and immoral governing behaviours.

If he wanted a model to better reflect equality, humanity and peace, he would make it more liberal, amd certainly more democratic.

Exerting extreme control and imposing limits does not develop a nation. It is only taking a short cut for the short term and that is not sustainable policy. It puts to waste the talent, creativity and potential of an intelligent, educated and hard working population.

If Marx wanted to capitilize on the intelligence, creativity and potential of a population he would most certainly CHANGE HIS MIND.

Answer 2

This is an awesome question! If Karl Marx was alive today he would say: " I TOLD YOU SO! and No I am not changing my position just some things."

What is interesting about Karl Marx's "the communist manifesto" is how right on it is. If you actully break it down and analyze it like it is meant to be it describes the current world right to the tee.
The most interesting quote out of his book is about how capitalism infects the world: "It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what is calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In a word, it creates a world after its own image." Marx was exact on in this statement as that is what the capitalistic governments did. They converted the world after its own image! If you don't go capital we'll blow you away or sanction the hell out of you till you don't exist!
Marx would have a hay-day with the current capitalistic money hungry oil companies of the world. He would see how they are easily destroying our everyday lives along with corporations in America. He would point out how the modern person is no longer considered a person but a "consumer" hence we have been turned into a product of capitalism. So where is the individuality that we so desire? We no longer have it.
Marx would also point out how much the capitalistic governments stole from the communism ideas. For example:
1. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
2.Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
3.Centalization of credit (although this one is done with credit bureaus instead of the state)
4.Centralization of the means of communication and transport
(again this is done by corporations lining pockets of senators and representatives to allow a monopolized industry)
5.Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
6.This is the most interesting one!
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
I feel the capitalistic governments of the world seen that communism had some great ideas and borrowed from them to better the economy and lively hoods of the workers. After all, if you keep them happy then you have no room for discontent and no discontent equals no fuel for a revolution.
I feel Marx would still hold strong on the idea of what communism did. But, I feel after seeing that the government really had no way to have money he would alter his ideas. I think he would allow a democratic election process. I do feel that he would want the government to step in and put profit caps on companies along with salary caps and have a profit sharing or a profit disbursement program. I also think that he would want equal pay among all employees. Instead of having a CEO make $400 million a year, why not have him make $100,000 a year and the rest goes to profit sharing or bonus' to the common laborer that allows the CEO to make $100,000 a year. I feel he would model his ideas after China, that is the only communistic country that survived without being overtaken or sanctioned the hell out of that has a functioning economy. It just took a long time and took some influences from a capitalistic government to free up its borders for expansion into the 21st century.

However, the best argument against Marx's ideas is just one!
In a democratic capitalistic government "ANYONE" can become his so called bourgeois. Look at Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Sam Walton, and the other extremely rich that started from little or nothing. They had an idea and ran with it. A person can't do that in a State controlled economy.

Answer 3

Yes Of Course he would! Communism is still the most viable alternative to CAPITALISM! The true essence of Communism as preached by Marx, has been perverted by modern day communist countries, to suit there own benefits! Capitalism makes the rich richer and the poor poorer... it is a proven fact!! But because Communism has been tabooed by the world's super power( and has been considered terroristic) we seem to want to distanciate ourselves from it, because we have been told by big brother that it is bad! But is it really? Is social equality such a bad thing? Because that is the bottom line of what marx tried to preach through his doctrine! The disadvatages of Capitalism hides behind the cloak of democracy! And because we so readily accept Democracy, it just seems viable that we should accept Capitalism! Both Communism and Democracy at its core, are good. Or at least they both have good tendencies. The "world" likes to say that Communism has failed on an epic scale! But has it? Hasnt Democracy (particulary in Africa) failed even greater than Communism? Communism Failed in east Europe and one or two other countries in the world! But almost the entire continent of Africa has failed democratically! And there are other examples out of Africa where democracy is not living up to all it has promised. So the question is which has failed on a bigger scale? And why are we so willing to accept definitions given to us by others? Marx would have stood by his Marxist/ communist belief...Because it is truly the only way to gain social equality in an otherwise unequal sociaty!

Answer 4

In addition to being a complete ******* moron, Karl Marx was also genocidally totalitarian. He would be very pleased with the effects of Communism is he could see them, as they accomplished exactly what they set out to do, minus the inevitable collapse.

Answer 5

Yes. I believe he would.
I think he would discover he had made a misconception and overestimated mankind. He'll probably even chastise himself for not seeing the obvious flaws from the start. It really was a beautiful idea- If only it was a perfect world. I'm sure he'd find some ideas to modify his plan after analyzing what went wrong with his original one-- and observing the problems in our current system. He might come up with a new impossible plan for a more perfect sytem.

Answer 6

I don't believe so. Marx was an ideologue. Just because the countries where communism was practiced, didn't succeed in the end would not be a reason for him to change his mind.

Answer 7

Democracy sprung from human nature and all men want to exercise an acceptable degree of freedom which is not in conformity with communism. That one point may be something Marx missed out

Answer 8

Karl Marx would see Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and china and become a capitalist.

Answer 9

If Karl Marx was alive today he would be spinning in his grave as Dubya would say.

Answer 10

Of course. He was a product of his times. You need to keep in mind that workers (the majority of the population) lived in terrible conditions back then. If he had been born today, he wouldn't have come up with the idea of a workers' revolution in the first place, because there is no NEED for one. There are hardly any workers left in the service economy.