Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: I'm not doing justice to his work in this short summary, but the basis is as follows. Marx looked at the society that surrounded him,and tried to think why people developed this type of society and not some other one.he thought about the type of society that had preceded it.efore 'modern society' (as he knew it in the 1800s) there was a more rural type of society, before that, there was a 'hunter-gatherer' type of society. Basically, societies were small scale, because any one food source could only support so many people.