f a commodity. What determines the value of a commodity is the labor time socially necessary for its production. That is, the amount of labor time that is required to produce a commodity: "Under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity prevalent at the time"(Das Capital).Marxism also has a predictive analysis of the socio-economic structures. Using history, logic, and the dynamic nature of humankind as guidelines, Carl Marx mapped out a sequence of events that shows the evolution of a society, which will eventually lead to Utopia(anarchy). In his work, Das Capital, Marx details the six steps that a society goes through to achieve utopia. The first level development is the primitive form of socialism, in which we have small villages that work together to take care of the village, or community. The next level of development after primitive socialism is feudalism. Feudalism is where we get to see the birth of Monarchs, and class systems. Feudalism is when the aristocrats are introduced into the socio-economic structure, as well as the peasantry, or serfs. The next level after feudalism is the birth of the middle class, and open business, otherwise known as capitalism. Then after capitalism, the next stage would be socialism, a larger version of the primitive socialism but in a larger scale. After socialism is communism, this is when authority is lessened to the point of non-leadership, and community thinking is started. The last and final stage is anarchy, in which Marx states that total equality will be achieved. (Eagleton, 37)The first form of a society that is mentioned by Carl Marx was a primitive form of socialism. In which I can only assume that it has the same basic rules of a larger scaled form of socialism except it is for a small community. The basic rule would have been that nothing was owned privately but that the people owned belonged to the village. And everything that the vill...
