Thursday, November 19, 2009

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a communism who studied philosophy. Marx made up a way of government he had an idea of communism in paper is sounded great but it wasn't practical . communism was a way to be fair with people. communism is when a country is govern by one person that the government control everything and owned everything in the country. people were paid the same salary even if they worked indifferent thing everyone had equal pay same pay. People had no ownership.
Karl Marx's idea of Communism was to be fair , equal and not let people ever starved again.He didn't believe in social classes.
According to Marx, capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. Communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism.
Marx wanted Communism to take over the world so people wont be taken advantage of and so thing would be fair and equal.Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial. Workers were often forced to work on huge collective farms and factory workers often had to fulfill quotas. In most Communist nations, the press was censored. They were not allowed to print news stories that criticized the government. People who spoke out against the Soviet government were treated harshly. Marx believed that the good guys were the people/ the workers(the proletariat) and the bad ones were the owner of factories(capitalists) because the capitalists took advantage of the worker mad them work for a lot for hours for cheat salary.


Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution



Marx was a German guy who use to be a Jewish but changed into christian.Marx was alive around the time of the industrial revolution. Marx felt that the industrial revolution was bad that workers were treated badly , they were controlled, worked and really bad condition and were unsafe. he was so against the industrial revolution that he stared to think of the idea about communism. he felt that the industrial revolution people were treated like machines not like people . The Industrial revolution inspired marx to invent communism so everything can be fare and so people wont be taken advantage of because he saw how people were treated in factories and how hard they work and so little money they got . people were being taken advantage of and he felt like that needed to be changed so he came with the ideas communism.