Marxism: A Brief Overview

Have you heard discussion about the 19th century ideology that was responsible for over 100 million deaths throughout the 20th century?

Here’s what socialists won’t tell you about Marxism:

Marxism is an economic theory created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid 1800s that put forth the idea that a capitalist market inevitably divided itself into two parties: the working class (proletariat) and the business owners (bourgeoise).

Many of us spent a brief time covering this in school, although most of us were either too young to grasp the information, or the school system only allotted our teacher a short time in the semester to cover the subject matter.

Marxism by nature is an envious, bitter worldview that will destroy your ambition and create a generation of disaffected people (young people specifically). It is an impractical, corrosive formulation and comprehension of the way successful economies are run.

Marx believed that the wages workers received were not payment enough for their labor, and formulated a theory that would allow the working class to bask in the riches they truly deserved. He believed that people were essentially blank slates that were shaped by their social class above all else, and were condemned to their poor living conditions based on characteristics that were beyond their control—that essentially an unregulated free market would divide people into two groups: the oppressed and the oppressor.

Marx and Engels believed that equal distribution of wealth would make everyone rich enough to easily acquire essential resources they needed to survive and prosper in a communal utopia. What Marx and Engels failed to account for was:

1. Responsibility to alleviate people of their privation would fall into the hands of someone

2. That someone would most likely be some form of governing body (the state)

3. The state would ultimately fail to provide adequate resources for their constituents (duh)

4. By eliminating the private sector, all power would fall under the authority of the governing regime

Marxism would basically create a new form of aristocracy in the form of an authoritarian, elite ruling class that would not only control all the wealth…but also own and distribute all the resources. The only utopia that would bloom as a result of a Marxist economy would be a mangled dystopia in which the people would now be forced to wait in line for food instead of standing in a picket-line.