Chapter 2: Marxism | The Sophistructure [0th Edition]
by Steven Gussman 0 When Karl Marx composed his ideas on economics, he claimed they were descriptive as opposed to just normative . 1 However, the man's legacy is not as a scientist , so much as an engineer; no science and plenty of failed social engineering have been the fruits of his labor. 2 Karl Marx's bloated hypothesis was at least two-fold, sociological and economic: 1. that any society of homo sapiens would follow a natural state machine from oppressive capitalism, to intermediate socialistic overthrow, and ultimately into a shared communist utopia with no individual property or labor ownership 3 wherein everyone shared the means of production rather than competing for (and creating) wealth through free-market innovation; 4 and 2. that the entire culture of a nation are but a means for keeping the “powerful” in “power”—this he called the superstructure . 5 The ill-defined word, “power”, has always been a bugbear for me (it is quite well-defined in