Necessity of Unity of Productive Forces across the World - Essay Example

The core arguments that Marx puts forth to support his thesis are that without unity and cooperation between the working class over the world, communism would merely end up being a “local event”. This would result in the working class remaining as isolated as ever, whereas they need to be “in their world-historical, instead of local-being”. He also stipulates that trying to compromise or seeking to find a middle ground would affect local communism. 

This first case can be observed primarily in the case of North Korea, whose economy is isolated from major (capitalist) nations. The second scenario is observed in Spain, among other nations, where massive protests do take place against austerity measures, but the lack of coordination retards their protests and fails to yield any results. The last case could also be observed when it comes to communist China, which had to resort to the capitalist mode of production owing to the involvement in global trade.