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.

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