karl marx
... to private property to his knowledge of government, he had come up with a plan. Karl Marx was an expert on all sorts of governments because he wrote about them all the time in his articles, which were published in Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne. He called for a communist society to overcome the horrible effect of private property. With the government capitalism, the struggle between the working class and the business class would end in a new society, a communist one. Marxism was a government, like communism, based completely on Marx’s beliefs. There are many important laws to Marxism. The most import rule is that the most important features of a society are its economic classes and their relations to each other in the modes of production of each historical epoch. In Marxism state is means when the ruling class forcibly maintains its rule over the other classes. Marx didn’t come up with communism alone. He had a lot of help. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel influenced Marx to do what he does. Hegel believed to be the only method of progress in human thought, and Marx based all of his beliefs on that simple statement. Friedrich Engels was one of Marx’s followers. They both wanted to change social revolution. They both succeeded. Without the guidance and help of these two men, and many more, Marx never would of succeeded in making communism real. Karl Marx joined a group called Young Hegelians. This group of people criticized Christians. They also suggested to oppose the Prussian autocracy. Prussian autocracy is the government of the Prussians, which is a single person having unlimited power, sort of like a dictatorship. The Young Hegelians didn’t believe this was the way to run a country. They wanted everyone to be equal, not have a single superior. This is part of the reason that Marx came up with communism. Karl Marx was a very triumphant writer who wrote a lot about government and philosophy. He had a column in a newspaper. He also co-wrote things like The German Ideology, the Holy Book, Communist Manifesto, and the first volume of Das Kapital. The Holy Book was criticism of some of their Young Hegelian friends for their stress on alienation. The German Ideology was a book where he developed their materialistic conception of history. In the book, Marx and Friedrich Engels argued that social and economic forces, particularly those related to the means of production, determined human thought. In the Das Kapital, he worked out a new theory of society. Marx showed that all social systems are economically motivated and change as a result of technical and economic changes in methods of...