Q and A

What I choose to answer, is the question stating if there was a modern occurrence of what Marx is saying in paragraph 5. This is important to me because if there are events that are similar to what Marx is saying, then obviously there holds some truth in his writings and we wouldn’t be reading Marx in class if he was not right about anything. Although Marx seems to be hard to read and harder to understand, I think I really understand what he is trying to say (at least I hope so). In paragraph 5 he still uses the word intercourse and all some more other difficult words, but I have learned that in this section of his writing you can interoperate intercourse as an "idea". It is critical to understand this if anyone wishes to analyze Marx and compare what he is writing to modern day events and that is exactly what I did. In paragraph 5 Marx talks about a North America as a country and how it broke off from the British. He also talked about other countries that take countries over and instill an idea and enforce this idea to the conquered country. He gives examples of when in history these occurrences have happened, but I want to know if any of what Marx is saying can be applied to today’s world. I believe it’s quite easy to see where this is apparent. Look at the war in Iraq. This is a fine example of how what Marx says in the 5th paragraph. The first part of his paragraph says that this new country only settled there because it had different views or goals than the old country. This is hard but I think we can say that America had settled in Iraq because they had different views than Iraq, mainly about terrorism and the government. This also means that because Americans took over Iraq to make it democratic the level of democracy should be more advanced in Iraq or at least the Americans in Marx opinion had many years to develop democracy and perfect it, so the people who worked on democracy in Iraq should be the most advanced. The second part of the paragraph says about a country conquering another and bringing over its ideas. Once again I’m going to continue with the view that this country is America and Iraq has been conquered. Although America is, at one point in time, going to leave the Iraq government develop on its own, we do not leave until the since of democracy is in its purist form. We do not leave until we know the idea we brought over does not change. Although Americans have their own traditions at home they do not look to have these traditions in Iraq. What I mean by this is that our very own soldiers in America, while in America may goof around or not be as serious about what they do. Taking a look in Iraq, the news says that the American soldiers will not stand for any goofing around by the Iraqi soldiers. They find them sleeping on the job and playing games instead of doing their job. And according to Marx in order for the Iraq democracy to be with out a loss of power you can not allow the Iraqi soldiers to do so, or else there is a chance the terrorists will take over again.