{"id":5626,"date":"2015-09-30T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:17:28","slug":"marx-in-soho-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/09\/30\/marx-in-soho-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Marx in Soho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Howard Zinn\u2019s <em>Marx in Soho<\/em> performed by Bob Weick, Karl Marx was introduced to the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century world, in which capitalism and money still rules.\u00a0 Money exists as the anchor of 21<sup>st<\/sup> century society, and while people that have money are loving the idea and stability of capitalism, the poor despise the current system.\u00a0 Capitalism exists as a way for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer in Marx\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 It exists as a way for people to squander their gains and simply consume.\u00a0 In the play, Marx tells that capitalism does not create citizens, but rather consumers.\u00a0 Advertising is an attribute to humans being consumers rather than citizens because it attacks people\u2019s vulnerabilities and forces people to consume what they want instead of what they might need.\u00a0 As long as people keep spending more and more money, the corporations of the world will profit and be happy while the rest of the world, which is the majority, suffers tremendously in this capitalistic society.<\/p>\n<p>In the play, Marx\u2019s flaws as a man and a father, but also flaws in his ideas.\u00a0 Marx had no way of telling the future, but he thought that after a revolution occurred, the people would take to rule and there would be his dream of a dictatorship of the proletariat.\u00a0 This idea was one that Marx did not have a complete understanding over at the time because even though a dictatorship run by the people or the proletariat is a revolutionary idea, it simply cannot be attained.\u00a0 In the play, Bakunin, a revolutionary Russian anarchist, asserted that Marx\u2019s idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat is simply unattainable because no dictatorship has ever lasted and the proletariat did not have the ability to rule a whole society.\u00a0 Putting people in power that have never experienced power before is a risky situation because they will abuse their new found power without realizing the consequences of their decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Howard Zinn\u2019s Marx in Soho performed by Bob Weick, Karl Marx was introduced to the 21st century world, in which capitalism and money still rules.\u00a0 Money exists as the anchor of 21st century society, and while people that have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/09\/30\/marx-in-soho-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}