• Mark's critical theories about society, economics and politics is

collectively understood as marxism.

• Explored the human society developed through class struggle.
• Employed critical approach known as historical materialism.
• He mentioned that capitalism produced through discrimination ,it will
lead to self- destruction and replace the system through socialism.
• State as an Evil
• Origin Theory – Product of History when society was divided into
propertied and non propertied classes state arose as a consequence of
conflict among classes .
• For example:
• Greek period the state belonged to the masters who dominated over the
slaves influence of the dominant classes.
• No possibility of human emancipation: Possibility under state-the state
can only exist as a tool for the exploitation of one class by another.
• Product of a society saddled with irreconcilable class struggles.
• Critical of Hegel's analysis of the state:The state for him was not,as
Hegel described,a "march of God on earth",but an instrument of the
dominant economic class exploiting and oppressing the other sections of
the society.
• Defined in the Communist Manifesto ,was "the executive committee of
the bourgeoisie".
• State emerges from his interpretation of history in terms of means of
production and class exploitation.
• Never either a natural institution formed as a result of social contract or
a moral divine creation.
• Instrument for class domination and exploitation by the dominant
economic class.
• Always protect the interest of the propertied class.He states in the
Communist Manifesto,'the executive of the modern state is but a
committee  for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie
and also that the state is "nothing more than the form of organization
which the burgeoisie necessarily adopts both for internal and external
purposes for the mutual guarantee of their property and interests'.
• Marx was a revolutionary and a socialist.
• Genuine emancipation and liberation of human beings.
• Origin of family,private property and state which undoubtedly becomes
our most authentic text on the theory of state.
• Relevant in contemporary era.