Karl Marx and his Political Theory: Who was This Person?

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Karl Marx and his Political Theory
Karl Marx was an influential socialist in the 19th Century. He is considered as one of the great philosophers, historian, social scientist, and a revolutionary. He proposed the conflict theory that tries to explain the why certain social interactions occur in the society. In his theory, he explains that everyday people engage in conflicts as attempts of gaining power in the society. Therefore, in his writings, Karl studied the different conflicts that occur between the different social classes in the society.
During the industrial revolution, the gap between the class structures in the society widened and created the differences between bourgeoisie and proletariat people. According to Karl, the bourgeoisie consists of those whose interest in developing a capitalist society and controls all the factors of production while the proletariats are the working class people who thrill of their labor. They feel that the middle-class people treat them poorly. They only receive what can enable them to survive, and they do not have that chance of achieving higher status (Smart). This is what creates the conflict between the different class structures in any society.
The conflicts are mainly based on the struggle to control the factors of production which are the main forces behind the development of humans and societies. This creates the economic systems that determine other structures in the society such as the political structure. According to Karl, "the economic structure of the society is the real foundation on which rise moral, legal and political superstructures and to which definite forms of social consciousness correspond."
Therefore, he argues that political systems arise from the economic systems of the society, and a socialist economy gives rise to genuine democracy. His view about politics is not based on genuine democracy. He did not have a high regard for democracy than a necessary evil in the society. Lenin explains this by saying "Democracy is a state which recognizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e., an organization for the systematic use of force by one class against another, by one section of the population against another." This is consistent with Karl’s studies in class conflicts.[Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Chicago, IL: C.H. Kerr, 1911), 11] [Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and V.I. Lenin, On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, 1984), 243.]
Through his work, Karl tried to answer the questions that people often ask themselves in the society. Why are the proletariats not being given their wages for the labor they provide in the society. They deserve them since they are the ones who help in improving production in the society which in turn develops capitalism. The bourgeoisie gain capital throu...