Marxism, a system of economic and political thought determined by Karl Marx, holds that owners, or capitalists, exploit workers. This theory suggests that class struggle has been the primary agent of historical change and supports a socialist order and a classless society. Carson McCuller's novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter presents Marxism to summarize the period of the Great Depression in an American society. McCullers includes characters that represent working-class white men, the adult generation, as well as a black man and woman. These characters represent different social groups in the South of the 1930s but nevertheless retain their individuality. The characters' perspectives also represent their outsider nature and the struggles and injustices that define them. Jake Blount and Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland express their dreams of political and economic reform through Marxist ideas by highlighting two disadvantaged groups: the nation's working poor and individuals from racial minority groups. Both Blount and Copeland believe that a Marxist society would prevent the misuse of a nation's labor force. Jake Blount is a character who represents an American working class man. Instead of settling down, he wanders across America and takes on new jobs when he needs more money. Blount is completely unhappy with the American capitalist society that keeps people oppressed by hiding the truth from them. Blount is characterized as a proletariat, that is, those who have nothing to offer other than their labor power because they do not own the means of production. One day he said to a group of factory workers sitting on their porch, “I have the gospel in me” (McCullers 78). The workers tell him to go to a service, but he insists that he is "more understanding and passionate about the subject. Both men have political ideas that make think and economic prospects, but fail to communicate their thoughts effectively. Jake Blount and Dr. Copeland are aware of their exploitation and believe that a Marxist society would end their nation's corruption. to black people, but realizes that something is seriously wrong in his world as Copeland devotes his entire life to fighting for African-American justice. made them who they are and kept them divided and powerless Marxist views have invaded Blount and Copeland's lives and characterize them as knowledgeable men with great ideas, but they lack the ability. to share their dreams for the future ;.