Karl Marx a prolific writer
In the Grundrisse, Marx achieved what few other sociologists wanted to do: that is to use his writings to analyze the actual act of thinking about thinking. Within the Grundrisse, he claims that it is essential for the scholar or the philosopher to determine the proper level of abstraction in order to grasp the concrete nature of things.

As a rule the most general abstractions arise only in the midst of the richest possible concrete development, where one thing appears as common to many. It follows that we need to go beyond partial explanations in order to track down the actual, efficient causes. . . at that level of abstraction where the individual causes all act together" (Marx, 1844, 1978, 203).

Where Marx concentrated primarily on the "needs" of man, Durkheim considered the "wants." In most of his works, he sees man

 

as a creature whose desires were unlimited. Because of this great desire, there is an equally strong need to control those desires. There is, according to his thinking no human occurrence that cannot be called social.

It has been Marx's misfortune that what he wrote as a tract for the times has been taken (by his supporters) as eternal truth or (by his critics) as an attempt thereat. But the Communist manifesto was in fact rushed out to try to rally the forces of the proletariat in the year of revolutions ("Karl Marx," 1999, 13).

Taken to its logical conclusion, Marx's capitalism is not becoming globalism and his "natural order" now has a linear development with mankind having the innate ability or power to create relationships. This sort of thinking is creating a new world order and it creates a new kind of structured "logic", the end result of which is a "regime" known as "capitalism

 
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