God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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But Marx’s enormous popularity does not change
the fact that his work is little better than a collection
of glaring contradictions. For example, Marx
considers the existence of class as the root of all evil
in the world. According to his philosophy, class
distinction is derived from the system of private
ownership, and the control exercised by the
bourgeoisie over the means of production which
enables them to plunder the lower laboring class.
The solution prescribed by Marx consisted of
confiscating the properties of the capitalist class and
putting them under the administration of the
laboring class. Thus, he claimed, a classless society
would come into being. But herein lies the basic
contradiction of Marx’s philosophy. For what comes
into existence as a result of this transfer is not a
classless society, but a society in which one class
takes over where the other leaves off. Where one
class previously controlled the economy by virtue
of ownership, another class now controls it by
virtue of administration. Marx’s so-called classless
society was in fact one in which capitalist
ownership was replaced by communist ownership.
