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Marxism, Idealism and Nationalism
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Marxism "On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its 'great intellects'." -Karl Marx Man in a bourgeois society is the victim. The state is against man, and he is constantly being exploited and oppressed by the upper class of the state. Man is thrusted into a state of alienation, and the pleasures of his life are constantly being obstructed by the state under a system known as capitalism. These are a few of Marx's views on how the states operate. He promoted a theory known as structuralism and he believed that the only way that man can survive under this system is to use their labor power on the market in exchange for an unfair amount of compensation. Marx believed that class divisions existed, between the workers and the ruling class. Marx stated that...
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