Marx:
Karl Marx is known as a German
philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary
socialist. Not only did he play a huge role in social science but also the
socialist political movement. His theories about society, economics and politics
are what we know today as Marxism. Marx argues to bring about socio-economic
change. He believed that socialism would eventually be replaced by a stateless,
classless society called communism. During this section of the course many
stories show Marx’s theories and relate to communism and socialism.
The
first story that comes to mind when thinking about the Marxism is “Dead Space for
the Unexpected.” The computer at the company, rates the employees on their
performance. Main character Jonathan, living a regular planned life gets rated
each day he attends work. The same thing is done for Simon, unfortunately his
scores were rated too low leading to termination. The way this computer
operates it feels as if authority is constantly watching them. After Simon was
terminated, Jonathan was sure to do his part in making the company successful.
Machines and humans relate in ways that I necessarily don’t believe in or don’t
want to think about just because it kind of freaks me out that our world one
day could be taken over by robots/machines.
Another
story that may deal with Marxism is “Baby, You Were Great!” by Kate Wilhelm.”
The world develops a type of entertainment where people with intense true
emotions, place electrodes into their brains and people will purchase these
helmets so they can experience the same emotional sensations. People watching
each other like this, freaks me out. All this happens due to the technology
where signals are sent out in the helmets and people all around the world can
sit and watch this so called “reality show”. This story may not be as good as
an example as “Dead Space for the Unexpected,” but they both show weird
scenarios with technology. Karl Marx seems to have been an intelligent guy, his
work definitely is something I liked reading up on.
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