Monday, November 23, 2009

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx, but his ideas changed Russian history. During the Industrial revolution,he saw the treatment of the workers in Europe. Conditions in Europe factories were really disgusting and unsafe. After seeing all this, he came up with an socioeconomic structure called communism.According to Marx, Capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. He said that people should be treated equally, especially when it came to pay. No one got a different amount of pay then another and there was no different kinds of social class. Everything was owned by the government and people had to share everything with each other. The people weren't even allowed to own a private house. Thats basically what Communism was.He saw the workers as the good guys, and the landlords as the bad guys. Karl Marx said that communism would be the last stage in human society, which would be achieved through a proletarian revolution and only becoming possible after a socialist stage develops the productive forces, leading to a huge amount of goods and services.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a German and. his ideas changed Russian history. He was born in May 5, 1818 and had died in March 14, 1883. He was philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist,communist and revolutionary. Marx was so surprised and disheartened by the treatment of workers in Europe. Conditions in European factories were very Terrible,disgusting and very unsafe. Marx felt that people who worked at the factories, rather than landlords, should control factories , farms and argued about it. He urged the workers of the world to unite in a worldwide revolution.Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction sooner or later Marx's ideas were known as Communism, a word formed for common. Workers would share wealth in a communist society. He believed that socialism will, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism.He spoke his idea if communism constantly and he was finally able to persuade leaders to adopt to the ways communism for years. His idea of communism was equal to the idea of a utopia which was a perfect world. He said that people should be treated equally when it came to pay, having houses (no private homes) and social classes. Everything was owned by the government and people basically had to share everything.