Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Session 14 Unjust distribution of resources

Marxism talks about how in history the man has struggle for material needs and his development is contingent upon materialism. The whole history of a nation can be divided into 5 stages .First we have natural communism where man lived in state of nature. Second we have Human epoch where there were slaves which were main resources of their owners. Thirdly we had Agricultural period where there were landlords and peasants. Now we have industrialization where there are factory owners and their labors. The fifth stage would be communism or socialism revolution where the proletariat who were constantly throughout the history exploited whether they were slaves, peasants etc. will revolt and hence take over the means and resources. The fifth stage has never been realized in its true sense in any country.

 Now although Communism is parallel to the capitalism but both of these theories recognize the class system that throughout human history has been there. This deep divide that we have created through our way of distributing financial resources is a problem. Now some types of capitalism like social capitalism calls for actions that will work for labor class. One way of doing this is high taxation rates on the earning class of the society. We have this kind of system developed in the Norwegian countries .It has its benefits and helps in ensuring basic necessities for the under privileged. Collective capitalism advocates steps for workers and their bosses or in terms of communism bourgeoisie and proletariat to cooperate with each other. In this system there is a demand for struggle that will bridge the gap between two.


Although total radical change of the society may not be achievable but there is a need to form a system where there can be equal redistribution of resources in the society. We live in the world where rich is getting richer and poor becomes poorer with time. We have one sect of society where the fundamental necessities of life are hardly available and other are having lavish life styles with surplus of luxuries. These differences are making the innocent law abiding  citizens become criminals because of unjust allocation of resources among citizens of one same country.

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