Society, A Big Bully

This week we discussed Karl Marx and his philosophy about the society. Today, we spoke about how he felt things should be and what he felt people should do. Karl Marx wrote in his book Communist Manifesto, “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!”  Karl Marx explains how he disagrees with the levels in society. In society the rich get richer and the poor get poorer when most of the hard work is done by those who make the least money. The people at the bottom that produce the items that make so much money, make close to nothing. Meanwhile, the people over them sit back, watch, sell the item, and make fortunes. Karl Marx encourages the workers to come together and fight back. The people above most workers have so much power but they wouldn’t if the workers would just fight back. This makes me think about the bully situation they always have on children shows. There’s always that big bully who has his gang of followers that do everything he says. With his followers, he terrorizes those that he feels like he can intimidate. They take lunch money, beat up, and do whatever else they please. Whatever the bully says goes and his followers do all the dirty work. Finally there’s that one kid that stands up to the bully and explains to the bully’s followers how bad of a friend the bully actually is to his “friends” also known as his followers. That kid, along with the followers and the other kids that were bullied come together against the bully and the bully is forced to change his ways. Society and the different levels of society play the same role as the bully, the followers, and those who are intimidated by the bully. If society was to come together they outnumber those who are unfair and misuse the power that they have, forcing a change.