Sumblog 2

Karl Marx is one of my favorite Philosophers, his ideas of  community and working together to achieve a common goal is very similar to my own. Marx was ahead of his time on the subject of equality. When reading this past section, he wrote this in 1856, a year where women had basically no rights and African Americans were still in slaved. However, when reading his work it does not sound like a person who is from such an unequal time. Karl Marx saw the diverging of power going to the few and the rich, similar to what is happening now in our time with the exposure of the 99%. Where only 1% of the population has the majority of the wealth while the one percent are the majority of the middle and lower class or working class citizens. When this happens it turns away from democracy because the "people" are no long running how this country works. The few and rich people are running the show how they feel is best, which is more on what is good for big investment business and not the small town market. He also gets passionate about the way religion is looked at in this time. Modern science is not quite around yet and people still turn to religion for answers. This is normally a good thing but the church is exploiting people for there money and other resources. He states that religion is just a way for man to explain something that man doesn't understand and knows that some of the ideas are not being said in the good of the people but the good of the few. Marx talks  about the camera obscura, how film comes into the camera to show an upside down picture even when in reality it is right side up. To me this shows that the ideas to have a good clear positive picture are there but the way we do things are upside down and even though the ideas are there they may not be presented in the way for the best outcome.