Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx hated industrialization. He believed that it was a bad thing and that it encouraged the separation of social classes. Because of this, inequality was more abundant and a two "social classes" emerged (as Karl Marx put it).

There were two new social classes because of Industrialization; the bourgeoisie and the proletariat classes. The proletariat are the poor factory workers who would always break their backs for the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie were the rich factory owners who hired workers to make money for them. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," Karl Marx stated.

Karl Marx predicted that large companies would buy out the smaller companies. He believed that everything would become a power struggle for money due to Capitalism. He saw Capitalism to be very evil and that it would someday destroy the world. He wrote in his book, "The Communist Manifesto" in hopes of getting people to follow Communism, a system in which he believed would benefit the world.

Communism was a very brilliant idea. Communism meant that people would receive the same amount of money, goods, supplies, and even power in the government. There would be no ownership of things, just sharing. Because everyone shares, there would be no need for a government over time. Unfortunately, things did not work out this peacefully.

Marx's ideas were fantastic but nobody really followed it the way it was originally intended to be. Corrupt officials took power and capitalism proved to be a better system for countries. It is very evident in our modern world today.