Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is an economic system founded by Karl Marx. It was first published in the Communist Manifesto. In Communism all workers made the same amount of money. Marx thought Communism should over the world because he thought the way capitalism worked only a small amount of people would have wealth and that they would eventually revolt. In Marx eyes he believed the working class were the good guys because they had to work hard to make little money while they made their bosses very rich. The people who controlled the wealth were the bad guys according to Marx because the took advantage of the working classes need of jobs to make them selves very rich.

Karl Marx & the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx really didn't like the Industrial Revolution. He thought that it dehumanized workers because factory owners only cared about how productive workers were. Also Marx realized that workers were working in bad conditions for bad pay. He saw workers working in very dangerous and unsafe factories. Factory owners didn't care because they just wanted to make money.

Marx then had the idea that if everyone made the same amount of money that wouldn't be a problem. So he came up with the idea of Communism and published it in the The Communist Manifesto. In Communism everyone would make the same amount of money so Marx believed that with this system people wouldn't suffer because of other peoples greed for money.