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.

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