Marx 'N Me: The Influence Research Proposal

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Marx's pragmatism is also very appealing to me. Emotive appeals not only do not make much sense to me, they also do not tend to affect great policy change or sway societies. Marx argues for the same things that many of the humanist philosophers of the Enlightenment argues for, but he determines that this is the correct course not due to emotive arguments, but the cool, rational logic of money, which always speaks to people in power.

This is not to suggest that Marx was always -- or even often -- successful in implementing his ideas. Indeed, the Russian Revolution whose early leaders claimed so much attachment to Marx's ideas fairly well butchered the humanist philosophy at the core of Marx's economic and political ideals. He even got into disputes with others that were ostensibly of his view: "Marx had refused to join forces with the Londoners [...] until they reconstituted themselves as a Communist League [...] They were not willing to meet his demands" (Wheen, 112). Marx was a true maverick, committed to his principles and his thoughts and unwilling to compromise his vision of revolutionary change. Though he never fully succeeded, neither did he completely fail. His perseverance is another reason I respect him. Too many philosophers sit back and let government happen as they analyze and comment on it; others are corrupted when they are pulled into the system. Marx remained true to his beliefs no matter how unpopular they were with the wealthy, ruling classes -- and they were never very popular.

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Another of Marx's comments is strangely resonant in the current climate of home foreclosures: "We have seen that the expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production" (Marx, Chapter 33). Not that the reclaiming of property by banks and the government is exactly helping capitalism, but it is interesting how the capitalist method both comes from and, in this case at least, leads to the reclamation of property by corporations from individuals. Though he was an optimist and an idealist, Marx was also essentially a realist. He realized that money and power are and will be the things that move the world as long as we live in monetary systems. The system has not changed drastically since Marx's time; the problems are simply more hidden under layers of false equality and the empty promise of the American Dream. But Marx also knew that change would not come quickly; that it was worth fighting for and worth waiting for. Towards the very end of his Communist Manifesto, he makes this commitment to the future very clear: "The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement" (Marx, Sec. IV). I wouldn't mind keeping the struggle going.

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