Have you joined the revolution yet? Believe it or not there is a revolution going on as we speak. The revolution that I speak about is called the Marxist Revolution; in short it is just a power struggle. The strong side is trying to dominate the opposing weak side. Some authors and scholars used the social and economic theories of Karl Marx in their works. (Karl Marx was the forefather of Marxism and its theories) Marxism has even been used as a type of literary criticism, called Marxist Criticism. As in Kate Chopin's short story, "The Storm", Marxism is present; therefore, Marxist Criticism is used to analyze the story.
             Marxist Criticism is, " The middle class capitalists exploiting the working class who produce excess products and profits yet do not share in the benefits of their labor. All parts of the society, in which Marx (Karl Marx, author of Marxist Theory) lived – religious, legal, educational, governmental- as tainted by what they saw as corrupt values of middle-class capitalism. " (Kirzner, 2035). In simple terms, Marxism is the "High Educated," Elite, Bourgeois (bush wa) against the "Illiterate," impoverished, Proletariant. According to critic Paul N.Siegel, Marxist literary criticism has the foundation of economics to deal with separate issues such as religion, politics, literature ...(163). Therefore, when the Marxist literary theory is applied, the foundation of the critic deals with economic problems and how the rich are controlling the poor.
             The best way to break down Marxism is into three parts: The Philosophy of Marx, The Economic Doctrine of Marx, and The Historical Materialism of Herr Marx.
             According to Karl Marx, "Dialectical materialism is the only scientific interpretation of the world; it is opposed to idealism which offers and interpretation based on religion"(Rius, 149). In the story "The Strom", dialectical materialism wo...