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Why Marx Was Wrong About the Power of the State

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sensible way to implement his perfect governmental system. According to Marx and Engels, five progressive modes of production have always existed and these may be also thought of as  forms of governmental control. These ranged all the way from slavehood to feudalism to capitalism and then would later progress to socialism and communism (McLeish, 1993). Historical materialism, while discussed  and altered by later theorists, is simply comprised of several key components. One is that it assumes progress in human history. Two, it functionally explains property, political and ideological systems  by their consequences for the advances of productive forces, and three, it connects definition of social classes to modes of material production (1993). This is Marxs interpretation. He basically authored  what later evolved into a concept that is also called by the same name. To Marx, by the time that history would progress to its communist end, it would  let go of authoritarian government roots and be run by the people. Similar to what democrats say they want--a society run by the people--communism was supposed to end up that  way. Government would be smaller. Smaller government today ironically is associated with the opposite or libertarian stance. Democrats generally support big government that some have criticized as being associated with  communist or socialist types of rule and Republicans want smaller government but applaud capitalism and democracy. Of course, the reason for this apparently problematic model is because communism in practice  has been completely different from Marxs design, even though communist leaders supported Marx at least in terms of ideology. In the United States, the public sector is a large bureaucratic  entity, and one which many criticize. Nevertheless, the government controls the mail, the election system and all its employees, car registration, taxation and tax departments and a slew of other