What would Marx say today

Communism shares with the American democracy the idea that men are equal. Our democracy however says people are only equal in their individual voice to govern our country and not equal in respects to their economic worth. Like Marx wants, our society allows people to do what they most desire, but it leaves it up to them to acquire the knowledge and skill to complete their desired task. It is the people who have chosen to not always do what they most desire because of either how mush skill it takes to be good at it and therefore paid to do it or because what they want to do does not pay what they want to receive. Marx has said that as long as life’s basic needs are met people will do what they most enjoy, yet the many American’s have shown that even with our government supplementing capitalism with a minimum wage, subsidized housing, and food and medical care for low income workers, millions of people decide to not do any form of work. This shows that most people will only work as hard as necessary to receive their set amount of pay. If there is no incentive to acquiring more skills and working harder people all over the world in all forms of government have proven that they will only do what is required for them to receive their pay.

Marx also says that it is the Bourgeoisie that suppresses the proletariat, yet it should be understood that in our society it is the Bourgeoisie that makes the proletariat stronger. Any worker can join the capital holding class, this gives incentive to the workers to work harder and take more risks in order to make this move. If what Marx said about people that are doing what they love is true then, in our society you will inevitably get paid more than any other for doing what they want because of how good they are at doing it. Marx’s failed to understand that oppression of the majority and laziness are natural to humankind, maybe not to all but most definitely too many. His “Communism” sounds great but because humans are last I checked still human, it is now and forever will be an impossibility.