– 1883) Essay, Research Paper
Throughout the last few centuries, according
to Marx, it has been the common worker’s fate to suffer the “maximum of
working time and the minimum of wages” in order to supply Capitalists with
profits. “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same
time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality,
moral degradation, at the opposite pole.” This must and shall be ended.
Granted, says Marx, the Capitalist is in
tight control. But the pendulum of power has swung many times in the past,
and he promises that it will again shift. The Proletariat, under the banner
of Communism, will ultimately be victorious. Revolution is the destined
scenario – and the ultimate historical “synthesis” will be a perfectly
just and egalitarian society, where everyone works , “according to his
ability” and receives “according to his needs”; where the state itself
finally “withers away.”