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Essay / Comparison of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
Even so, the rich feel a sense of comfort in the face of alienation. Alienation is powerful in itself and shows human reality. Marx notes that within the opposition on both sides, each represents a side. The rich represent the conservative side, while the working classes represent the destructive side. Surprisingly, when it comes to economic development, the rich unconsciously tend to sabotage themselves. Their own self-sabotage helps the lower class in beneficial ways. “When the proletariat achieves victory, it in no way becomes the absolute side of society, because it achieves victory only by abolishing itself and its opposite.” (KM p. 134) When the lower class wins, the rich and lower classes cease to exist. In Marx's society, the "proletariats" are considered gods. The proletariats are considered practical people. Marx declares that the proletariats are “the complete abstraction of all that is human; since all the living conditions of contemporary society have reached the height of inhumanity in the living conditions of