Marx did not only think about an economic idea, but also totality of the method. In his view, the world must be understood as a single, integrated unit. This concept was a socialist concept that emerged in response to the industrialization of capital. The capitalist state was regarded as an unfair system. It triggered the conflict between capitalism. Where one side acts as oppressor (oppressors), and on the other hand there are Oppressed (the oppressed). The capitalists would rake in as much profit as possible by pressing labor (Deliarnov, 2006: 41-42).
Marx saw capitalism as a system has many weaknesses. According to Marx, capitalism is exploitation form of labor. Capitalism makes the workers experience alienation. This forced the workers are isolated and can not grow. Workers used as a means to meet the needs of the capitalists. In other words, workers are alienated of its nature as a human being (Ritzer, Goodman, 2011: 36).
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Marxists reject capitalism as a system that is considered to be self-sustaining. In Marxism view, capitalism is more accurately described as self-destructive. This is because of the pressure of capitalists against the workers. Karl Marx had predicted would be the revolution of the workers. To that end, capitalism should be replaced by a social system that is based on common ownership and collective distribution (Deliarnov, 2005: 42). In the Marxist perspective, economic change is able to transform ideological superstructure. Human actions depend on changes in the economic structure (Chilcote, 2010: 161).
Marx's materialistic conception saw political superstructure by an economic base. Economy is the only deciding factor for any conception of life in general. Be it political, social, cultural, moral, philosophy or ideology, everything is conditioned by such economic factors. In the link between politics to a market economy, Marx believed the dominance structure in any economic organization. Politics for Marx was only a bridge to the ruling class to legitimize its control in order to obtain capital (Deliarnov, 2005: 44).
Marx described that the existence of classes should be only bound to a particular historical phases in the form of production development. It required leaders of the proletariat or workers to establish an authoritarian state. To carry on the dictatorship of the proletariat, the class struggle is needed. This dictatorship would jump into a transition to the abolition of the entire class. That ultimately towards a classless society in which private property rights against the property eliminated. For Marx, the existence of property rights ownership of the goods shown characteristic of their class in society (Chilcote, 2010: 171).
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