No Blesse Oblige: The Marxist Ideology

Hello fellow bloggers!
You know it just dawned on me; there are really eight of us that the previous statement applies to......we're pretty lonely aren't we?

Anyway, this week's blog asks for us to choose which ideology--Functionalism or Marxism--will be able to keep up with our continuously adapting world. Evidently, the answer to the question is really Functionalism (developed by Emile Durkheim and expanded upon by Talcott Parsons) however, obvious questions like these tend to leave concepts like Marxism under the gutter. Therefore, I have decided to do my blog on Marxism, an ideology that probably will never go into affect but has a real positive direction towards it.

Marxism, the theory that criticizes the capitalist perspective (of material wants), believes in the formation of a superior, egalitarian society ran by the working class (proletariat) instead of the oppressive factory owners (bourgeoisie). Marxism is structured on the idea of societal control and not elite domination. The concept of "No Blesse oblige" or the rule of the few over the many, is the epitomy of what the Marcists are against. In Marxist eyes, a nation will start out as a capitalist and gradually deviate from capitalism to communism as the workers begin to realize that they are being given unfair wages for very laborious work. Eventually the "working class" will gain class consciousness (sociology term) and rise up against the "factory owners". Now this ideology is good philosophically but it is almost impossible for it to be utilized realistically. Our nation, for instance, is so enveloped in the idea of free market competition that moving into an egalitarian society, which is what Marxism implicitly promotes, would seem unfair to those who like to compete even though there "competition" leads to more suffering. In essence, Marxism serves as a good premise as to what direction a nation should take yet in this competitive world, Marxism will remain just that: an idea.