Thursday, November 19, 2009

Karl Marx and Communism

After the effects of The Industrial Revolution german philosopher Karl Marx used his knowledge and ideas to change what he thought was a negative effect on the world. Karl Marx invented communism. In Marx's idea of communism he believed that everyone should share wealth unlike today's communist governments which have become dictatorships. Marx and a man named Friedrich Engels published "The Communist Manifesto" which explained Marx's views of what he thought the worl should be like.
Marx emphasized on the excessive need for new factories and the pollution it brought. He stated "capitalism contained it's own seeds of destruction". Marx was known as a historian of economic thought, he posted exactly 10,000 on economics. After being financially supported by Engels for much of his adult life Marx died in 1883. After the war many governments became communist changing the ideas of Marx and making them their own. These countries became strict dictorial lands.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was an important event in history which led us into the modern world we live in today. It had positive and negative effects and people all had different views and opinions on it. Karl Marx was a man who wasn't much in favor of The Industrial Revolution. Marx looked down on the way industrial workers were treated, conditions of factories, pollution that these factories gave off and he also believed that the power should go to workers in these factories instead of landowners or landlords. He inspired a world wide revolution for workers. Karl Marx's ideas would later go on to create communism which was used in many countries but didn't exactly work. Some countries today still use communism like Cuba.