FREE ESSAY ON DETERMINISTIC SCHEMA

DETERMINISTIC SCHEMA

Marxism is a deterministic schema in that according to its doctrine, each subsequent turn
of events is a direct result of a specific sequence of causes. According to Marx and
Engels in this statement, each stage of history is inevitable and is pushed into the next
stage by specific forces, particularly class struggle. Class struggle in a Feudalistic
society between the Autocracy, some craftsmen, and infinite numbers of peasants, combined
with the onset of the Commercial Revolution in the sixteenth century leads to capitalism.
The Industrial revolution that accompanies capitalism causes a new kind of class
structure and with it, a new kind of class struggle. The middle class grows in size and
wealth while the peasants become the working class and decline in wealth as their
depravity increases. The Labor Theory of Value states that the worker can never make it
because s/he never receives enough money for the worth of the product. All of the profit
goes to further investment and the proletarian is left overworked and hungry. This class
related problem leads to the failure of the capitalist revolution and pushes society into
socialism. Socialism is state capitalism. The workers own the companies and the issue of
class is avoided - it is a classless society. As a deep down moralist, Marx is most
interested in the class struggle fueled push into socialism. He is quite vague about the
necessary push from socialism to communism, and is more interested in the capitalism -
socialism transition. Steps cannot be skipped but can be sped up, so the question would
be when will class struggle force society into communism from socialism. Communism
according to the manifesto is the withering of the state and the ideal state of existence
with much collaboration. Lenin takes the challenge of manipulating time (Marx didn't say
when) and bringing communism into play. His was a combination of wanting to grab power
for the will of the people and Marxism.