Topic > Comparing Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber

Even so, the rich have a sense of comfort with alienation. Alienation is powerful in itself and shows human reality. Marx notes that within the opposition both sides represent each side. The rich represent the conservative side, while the lower class represents the destructive side. Surprisingly, when it comes to economic development, the rich tend to unconsciously sabotage themselves. Their very self-sabotage helps the lower class in a beneficial way. “When the proletariat wins, it does not become the absolute part of society at all, since it wins only by abolishing itself and its opposite.” (KM p. 134) When the lower class wins, both the rich and lower classes cease to exist. In Marx's society, the “proletariats” are seen as gods. The proletariats are seen as practical people. Marx declares that the proletariat is “the complete abstraction from everything human; since all the living conditions of contemporary society have reached the peak of inhumanity in the living conditions of