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movement, Communism. But when Marxist thinking is applied to public policy, it draws criticisms. This paper explores those objections to a Marxist approach to public policy. Discussion The first thing
to do is to determine what a Marxist approach to policy might be. In his book Analysing Public Policy, Peter John writes that Marxists argue that modern government is simply
a "committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie, so it follows that what is produced by the state, policy, reflects the interests of the bourgeois class and
the dominant economic system" (John, 1998, p. 93). Marxists tend to explain policy in terms of the power of the capitalist class "and/or the political logic created by the capitalist
mode of production" (John, 1998, p. 93). Marxists believe that even if labor succeeds in exerting some influence on the political process, it will be limited as they will not
gain real access to the decision-makers (John, 1998). The Marxist approach sees political policy as "inextricably bound up with economic developments in society" (John, 1998, p. 94). This becomes of
great concern when the economic balance in society shifts, as it is now, and the distribution of wealth becomes so greatly skewed in favor of the elite. But one
criticism of the Marxist approach that might be made is that these inequalities are not the result of capitalism or of policies that promote it, because capitalism is "a way
to organize industrial firms from an economic standpoint" (Feinman, 2005). But it is not a guide to how a company should distribute its earnings, which, Feinman argues, means that the
problem is not who owns the "means of production, but how the competing forces in society" are managed (Feinman, 2005). When appropriate policies are put in place, "companies can provide
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