Marx Reading combined with Romanticism Reading 725-732

Marx’s brand of socialism is flawed.  He decrees that overtime, capitalism will fall by the wayside through its inability to be sustained without constantly discovering new markets, inventing new technologies, or cannibalizing old firms.  The working class will rise upon its dissatisfaction and take control, eliminating the inequality of classes and establishing a communist nation.  But, Marx sees this as a worldwide occurrence where every nation seemingly does this at the same time and suddenly the world in transformed.  As Romantics clearly show, national pride was on the rise through the work of artists from nations like Germany or England.  It would seem strange that every worker would throw to the side their national pride for the greater good of the world, a world full of citizens that have always been in contest with those same workers.  In Communism, Marx assumes that the working class won’t have power struggles within itself after it has taken control.  This is an impossible reality because workers will naturally be inclined to try to put themselves and their natural culture above those from other nations.  Just because another man also helps to build the same machine does not mean that they will automatically be friends, especially when long rivalries, like those between France and England, have existed.