Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim both shared similar socio-economic ideas about socio-economic structure. Their similar ideologies can be represented in the instance of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany.
The primary issue during the Cold War was the desire to separate the communists in the East from the capitalists in the West as a means to prevent the synthesis of population and ideas and to keep people from leaving East Berlin. However, this social condition ended in 1989 when the border between East and West Germany was opened, marking the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism.
In Marx's view, the collapse of the Berlin Wall would be a catastrophe. Marx was a communist, meaning that he supported having an economic system that was characterized by a collective ownership of property and the restriction of rights by the state. The bringing down of the Berlin Wall is a perfect example of Marx's view that conflicts arise from the structures of......
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