what is affirmative action and how would you relate it to karl marx?

Answer 1

Marx felt (rightly at the time) that people were being exploited by the rich. Back then, there was far less social mobility than you have now. The only way he felt that things would change for the better was for the workers to revolt, take matters into their own hands and overthrow the system that kept them oppressed.

Remember, there was a huge rich-poor divide then, with the poor being exploited on levels that we do not see now in the Western World.

He wanted people to take matters into their own hands and take action to overthrow governments and make the world a better place.

Answer 2

Oooh. You're a little confused, as are the other people answering this question so far. Karl Marx and affirmative action have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Karl Marx is the founder of modern communism which espouses the ideal of economic equality. Affirmative action is a concept that really exists only in the United States. Affirmative action is based upon the idea that some groups of people, mainly African Americans but also women, the handicapped, American Indians, and other minorites, have been discriminated against in the past and are therefore suffering at the present in an economic sense due to inferior wages and inferior job opportunities. So according to affirmative action, we should right past wrongs by preferentially hiring members of these previously marginalized groups whenever possible. I swear, the two concepts really have nothing to do with each other. One is an economic system and the other is a social philosophy.

Really liberal people think affirmative action is a good idea; mainstream America is pretty ambivalent about affirmative action, and far right people hate it. There are practically no Americans who think that communism is a good idea; however, far right people are very fond of saying that far left people would like to live under a communist government. It's unclear why far right people think and say this, but it's not true.

Hope this was helpful.

Answer 3

Affirmative Action is a social policy in which preference is granted to individuals of certain races to make up for past discrimination suffered by themselves or thier ancestors (since the past discrimination is as much as 40 or 50 years in the past, that's increasingly the case). In other words, "two wrongs make a right." No big connection to the philosphy of communism that I'm aware of - though, aplied to things like employment, it does expand the role of the government in the market, it doesn't do so to nearly the extent that Marx advocated.

Answer 4

Affirmative Action is racism disfavoring whites. Both it an Karl Marx are favored by liberals.

Answer 5

Karl Marx would not have affirmative action as everyone is considered equal. In capitalistic societies it is necessary for others to be beneath you for you to be successful so affirmative action is to help those who are considered the beneath class on the governmental level.