What do you make of karl marx’s contributions to sociology? what perceptions of marx have you been exposed to in your society, and how do those perceptions influence your views?

Marx explains the current inequality in the world and the ongoing crisis of the economic system worldwide, a pressure against oligarchic, monopolys or political powers can be enabled from some public institutions and state intervention often in cooperation against big corporations.

Explanation:

Karl Marx defined the devices from which the owners of the means of production benefit from the work of employees. He also foretold the crisis cycles that have ocurred, and eventually saw the system to end as a new system would arise from the dialectical vision.

Today's companies share of stock and participation in the world has diminished the power of states as main actors if their economies are smaller.

However the problems we face today in the world are shared, like global warming, and the search for better conditions of life has driven many states to cooperate together to limit , regulate the laissez faire dynamics. Problems like migration and war are also result of increasing inequal share of wealth  making the promises of neo liberalism to be reformulated.

Workers are striking in the world to promote inclusion in the policy making.

The Ocuppy Wall Street movement could be here representated as one of the neo marxist movements that are influencing more that we could imagine at a time when we considered Marxism in developed countries to be out fashioned.

they encountered severe weather for which they were poorly prepared.