MARXIAN REVIEW ON PH IN HK

Marx holds a very different view on the issue of public housing. Durkheim see ph as a kind of

social institution that maintain social order by providing ph for the poor and it will help ease the

dissatisfaction of those poor people.

While Marx Will think that the situation shown in the of video is an illustration of how the

superstructure work together with the economic infrastructure that reinforcing each other. In the

case, why the couple so desperate t have an private housing ? Marx will say that it is how the

media and politics that protects the interest of the capitalist. According to the Policy Address

2012, the government will provide 15,000 flats of public house but the applications numbers are

rising annually, from 210,400 in 2012 t0 270,000in 2015.It is the government who controlling

the supply of public housing but cannot meet the demand even far from sufficient that pushing a

lot the needy rent or rent a flat in private market and this is why the private housing price be so

high that a lot of people need to save money so hard in order to buy a house. Moreover, the

advertisements also create a “owing house mentality” that encourage Hong Kong people to buy

their own house no matter how difficult this will be. As Hong Kong people believe that the price

of a flat will keep rising and it is a good means to fight against inflation or devaluation of money

as the exchange value of it will be a lot higher than the purchase cost etc.

In his book called <kipital> , Mark believed that the conflict between the capitalists and

proletariats will be sharpen and intensified while in the video we can see that in modern society

some conflicts can also triggered off within the working class, not only between the capitalists

and proletariats , we can see that in the video, the husband belong to sandwiches class will be

blamed by the even low working class who can’t afford the private housing for occupying the

resources of the most in need. Both of the working class and sandwiches class are also the

proletariats class without owning any means of production but there is internal segregation

among them, they tend to blame each other rather than blaming the unfair structure and in light

of that it is very hard to lend to a proletariats collective action and overthrow the capitalist class

in the short run.