Historical, Cyclical Revolution

What I find interesting above communism itself is Marx's historical interpretation of economics and class. There is a great sense of irony that comes from the change from feudalism to capitalism to communism. Marx describes a defection from a number of the nobility into the bourgeoisie at the end of feudalism and he lays a cyclical pattern of bourgeoisie ideologists who defect to the proletariat(167). Ironically Marx states that, "the weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself". (164) I think his analysis of history is interestingly valid but is also lacking the detail that would prevent it from being too subjectively generalized. Marxian analysis remains valid today though because his words from over 150 years ago seem to accurately describe the adverse affects of unrestrained capitalism through industrialism and globalization. It may be argued that his views projected into the future of communist triumphs are far less valid then his historical analysis. It still lays an important way of examining historical economic problems that continue today but his view of change suffers from ideological rigidity.