Question

Q. Describe Karl Marx's dialactical materialist approach to understanding class relation. Also, how his theory described the inequality and poverty? (250 Words)

Answer 1

Karl Marx's dialectical materialist approach to understanding class is not a formula for generating predetermined outcomes, but as a method for the empirical study of social processes in terms of interrelations, development, and transformation. His theory described the inequality and poverty due to the existence of two classes in society i.e. the bourgeoisie, which is the capitalist class that owns the means of production, and the much majority of the society which is the proletariat (or 'working class') who work for the bourgeoisie as they are the labor power.

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie class in a capitalist society exploits the workers. The owners pay the workers enough to afford food and a place to live, and the workers, are not able to realize they are being exploited as they, have a false consciousness, or a mistaken sense, that they are well off. They think to rely on their capitalist bosses to do what was best for them.

Marx thought that a workers’ revolution was inevitable; as the rich grew richer Marx thought that the workers would emerge as a true class consciousness, or a sense of shared identity based on their common experience of exploitation by the capitalist bourgeoisie class. They would lead to a global revolution of the workers as they would unite.