Following critics are against Marx’s views:
(i) History has failed to substantiate Marx’s views on the direction of social change.
(ii) Significant social inequalities are present in communist regimes and there are few, if any, signs of a movement towards equality.
(iii) The priority given to economic factors has also been criticized by elite theorists who have argued that control of the machinery of government rather than ownership of the forces of production provides the basis for power.