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I was born from a farmer family in a rural area of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. When I was at the senior high school, I would love to join a trip to Java in a program called study tour. I was trying to find financial supports from several persons or organizations, including governmental offices as most of my friends did and succeeded. I wanted to make other successful stories like them because I was so naive that I was equal to them, while it was not actually. They had economic, social and cultural capital that I did not have.
My school gave all students a complete proposal for this purpose. I was so optimistic that I would obtain enough amount of money from people to fund my trip as many of those friends had told me their successful stories. At this time, I always defined 'success' around the spirit of working hard. So, I believed that as long as I worked hard, I would make it like them. I moved from one place to other places to show them my proposal for financial supports. I was struck that every one I saw and showed my proposal to him or her asked me the same question, "Who were your parents?" When I told them that I was a son of a poor farmer from a country side. They showed me unwelcome faces and tried to find 'rational' reasons to reject my proposal. They thought that I could not identify their 'bad' and unwelcoming feeling about me.But, I understood that they treated me in that way only because I was a son of a poor farmer. I knew that if I were a son of a rich person or a person who had a good position in a government office, they would have treated me differently and special. As a result, they would provide more than what I wanted. Unfortunately, I am a son of a poor and illiterate man. I knew that they would not give hands to anybody without condition. I knew now that equality in education is false and had led many people to have a false recognition of their position in the society wherein they live. Actually, they always wanted reward from what they had given. When they say 'yes', actually they want something rewarding from you. However, they will not say 'yes' to a poor person like me. From this moment, I felt how difficult it is to be a poor person. The structure of my society built a very thick fence to go thorough for a poor person economically and socially like me. For Indonesian society, I think, this is a very serious problem, especially in education system. We are predetermined to be poor and working-class through educational system. The government always work hard to make the capitalist happy. When the capitalist say, 'we need more workers,' the government without any hesitation say to them 'yes', we will build more vacation schools (SMK) to meet your needs. The capitalist, the noble, and the government work together to make Indonesian people to be slaves and servants using people's taxes. On the other hands, these people are naive and think that to be servants for them are a privilege and prestige. So, what do you think?

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Philosophical basis of Marx ideas is the nature of human beings, i.e. human-species that differentiate themselves from other creatures by being able to be creative in order to survive in society. Lion, rabbit and tree can survive because they naturally form ecological interdependence one another. Lion depends on rabbit, rabbit depends on tree and tree depends on both. In order to survive lion does not need to be creative and ought not to create a new environment. Whereas human beings, in order to survive, they have to create a new environment by producing things that are necessary to support their needs. They will find their true meanings in the word that they create so-called self and social consciousness. Thus, human beings by origin have direct intimacy with its creation and, as a result, with others, because they need them to function socially. So, Marx implies that whatever the social system or structure that prevents human beings to reflect directly on the world they create must be denied. Otherwise, human beings soon or later will lose their humanity. Our increasing reliance on technological inventions, in fact, has been building blocks preventing us to be truly human. Therefore, we are in the process of losing and killing our humanity. We do not know how far we should go to realize that we almost lose everything, including our natural and beautiful environment.