Communists at the Door
What is Marxism?
Marxism asserts that human *society is marked by a class struggle in which a privileged ruling class of capitalists, who control the means of production, exploits a working class, and that this fundamentally unjust economic situation results in humans being estranged from one another, from nature and from their own fundamental essence. Marxism looks to a day when this situation will give way to a utopian era characterized by a free and radically egalitarian human society. This society, however, can only arise through the struggle of the working class against their oppressors. Marxism declares that the socioeconomic structures of any given society condition its basic values, *laws, *customs and beliefs, and therefore that ethical systems are a reflection of class interest. Marxist ethics, therefore, seeks to advance the well-being of the working class, with the goal of transforming the world.