Marx's Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping The World

One Sentence Summary: In Michael Schuman’s article, “Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World”, he establishes how Marx’s idea about class struggle is correct in current situations with capitalism in the world today where the wealthy are becoming more wealthy while the working class do not have an increase in wealth, but the workers are not uniting to try to solve this problem. One Paragraph Summary: In Michael Schuman’s article, he states that although Karl Marx’s ideas weren’t entirely true, he was right about capitalism. Capitalism seemed to be working, but the reality was that things were going worse rather than improving. The wealthy are making more money, and the working class are not gaining any wealth. Schuman uses statistics from the United States to demonstrate the gap between the rich and the working class. Schuman also explains the similar situations in China and France, and also uses statistic from both countries to establish the tension that exists from wealth between the rich and working class. The working class on the other hand, haven’t joined together to try and fix the problem. …show more content…
Capitalism appeared as it was working, but the truth was that things were becoming worse rather than making things better. Schuman uses the statistics to say that the amount of money that the U.S attained was going to the wealthy, which there is the minority of people in the country. The working class, which he establishes that is made up of the middle call and the poor, on the other hand do not gain nearly as much money as the wealthier. This causes to be an immense gap between the rich and the poor. Class wasn’t a big problem in 1973, but now it has become a very serious

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Marx's Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping The World

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