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I agree however, that capitalism is not flawless. But Marx didn't give any good solutions either. Even his writings about the 'flaws' of capitalism are not the real flaws. For example, he stated that not everyone has the same opportunity. It is true, however it is not a problem, the ones which the society need the most, will be the most successful ones. It is in schools and colleges btw, not all students have equal opportunity to attain high scores (it depends on students different individual intelligence) but the school must still mark their scores based on their competence. You can not force the college/school to give the same marks on all of their scores or mark their scores based on how much hardworks they put, but based on the individual competence.

The economic implementation is, if you are rich since you were born, it is your ancestors who worked hard to serve the society's need, thus they were and eventually you are rich.

If you do not want to give the REAL examples of Marx's ideas being implemented successfully, and you want me to read all of your long script, I'll read and analyze it anyways, give me time.

I am not giving you examples of Marxist ideas being implemented in the literal society. Instead, as I have mentioned, I am introducing a literary framework that explains, through Marxism, why subjects do not want to acknowledge Capitalism's flaws and instead subscribe to its hegemonic control

Society is comprised of a diverse range of people. The most successful ones have a correlation with being leaders in their fields or pioneering certain methods that improve mankind, but what happens to those who are unsuccessful? Vague definition of success here; I am assuming you refer to success in terms of economic capital (i.e. being wealthy, and achieved a certain social status). If that is so then there is still the lower-middle class, which make up the majority of any population in the globe. If it is not a problem, those who have this view are too high up on their ivory towers. I know this is steering in a political direction, where no one is ever right (opinion based). That's why Im not addressing that point for we are entitled to our own political sides and thoughts. 

Historically, even those who have not worked as hard are given economic benefits. For instance, those who supported a certain movement or sided with a certain ruler stood to gain benefits that were passed down in terms of social prestige down the years. One does not necessarily need to work hard in order to be in control of capital. Of course in today's society, meritocracy rules otherwise. 

Meritocracy need not be dogmatically restricted to the academic sphere. Let's say I'm a banana farmer or an industrial worker. If I cultivate 15 bunches of bananas, or if I manufacture 10 mugs, then I am entitled to a minimum wage. However, if I go the extra mile and farm/make 10 more bananas/mugs than any of my fellow coworkers do, I receive a bonus of lets say 30 arbitrary units. 

This may seem completely economic, empiricist or arithmetic. However, workers are still subscribing to meritocracy, the belief that if they work harder they will have greater access to capital. What they do not realize however, is that they are forced to do so in terms of ideology (dont work, no income and starve, break system and steal money, get jailed, punished now by the repressive state apparatus). They are not helping themselves, at the end of the day they are still workers being exploited for us having our breakfast, eating bananas while drinking coffee from our mugs. Mere cogs in the system, they are still workers, the lower class strata.

I hope this is "authentic" enough for you.

The problem with ideological debating or political philosophy is that it’s most of them time quite vague and open for interpretation. Also people tend to start saying against each other: you just don’t understand, as you and sunli are doing right now.

I dont partake much joy in literary discussions though, I am more passionate about history, and thats where im aiming to develop in my future career path, all ideologies aside

Backgrounds do make a huge difference, your story about the meritocracy sounds very normal to me. The idea of not everyone has the same changes are very common in my bubble, it’s like one of the main themes of Dutch social Democratic Parties. That’s why our social democratic parties always are suspicious off extra help outside of schools because the lower classes can’t afford this kind of support. That’s why this idea doesn’t shock me at all and I don’t think it would shock most people I know.

I feel kind of lost when you guys dabble in current affairs too Thanks, great to know I got something there HAHAHA