Session 8: Marxist’s View of Revolution

According to Marx, revolution not only brings political change but also social change. He is right in his perspective that the main motive of it is to bring change in people’s lives by eradicating the hurdles and problems they are facing in them. In the view of it the revolutions which bring only the change in power in political system should not be regarded as revolution but as the Bourgeois revolution. This is what happened to the revolution came in Subcontinent only the transfer of power from the Britain to the elite as one can say bourgeois who owned most of the land and other means of production in Subcontinent. They needed a place to rule so they decided to start a revolution of division in Subcontinent. As one can see both the countries that are Pakistan and India have only changed the face of the people in power and are still following the same system of rules, regulations and laws Britain made for us. This revolution is not a true revolution in its true sense. Marxist believed in the conflict perspective that revolution and change only occur due to conflict and he is absolutely right. The notion of class consciousness is itself a conflicting concept it evokes people to realize that how bourgeois owns everything and they do not have even the basic needs of life like in a capitalist society. This is what will bring change in Pakistan if Pakistan ever got the chance of it. Here the public is now realizing how the elite and the people in power are eating us up and now they want people from within who can actually represent them, who can actually understand their needs and help them to reform a society they want it to be like. As the Marx says in its speech at the anniversary of the People’s Paper in 1856 that “History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian”. They always bring the true revolution in the society with the basic concept of class consciousness.