The Theorist I Chose For My Review - 1457 Words

The theorist I chose for my review paper is Karl Marx. I thought that it would be interesting to gain a deeper understanding of him, his theories, and a better understanding of the Bourgeois and proletariats. To understand Marx and his theories it is important to understand history and the evolution we have gone through throughout history. Marx gained perspective for what society means and what society should be by gaining a better understanding of civilization by studying the way that slavery, lord and serf relations, and guild-masters operated at functioned in society. By studying these ancient systems of society Marx was able to create a perfect system, communism, which in theory would create an equal and fair community with no†¦show more content†¦To be average in the Roman and Greco time period you would live in close proximity to your neighbors, share a common bathing house, water well for water and washing, and have little money to spend at the markets. The Middle Age s had feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, and serfs. In the Middle Ages the feudal lords were the top of the line. They were the wealthiest in their society and held the most power. However, because of their wealth and power they needed protection, so they granted land to vassals, also known as knights, in return for protection. The vassals who owned the land and lived on the land hired the serfs as indentured slaves to work and take care of the land. It was the jobs of the serfs to maintain the land and in return they were allowed to live on the land without having to pay. This system caused the creation of the guild-master occupation. With the work the serfs were doing on the land they would take their agricultural yield to be manufactured and turned into textiles. This system worked well because the system was setup for limited interaction between classes. The vassals did not have to associate or mingle with the serfs, and they were able to have a successful and profitable syst em. The study of these systems is what leads Marx to his idea of the bourgeois and proletariats. This idea was not able to work with the feudal and patriarchal societies that the Romans,