Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a German born Philosopher, who had much influence on the subject of Communism. He was known as the founder of communism. His life long friendship in Friedrich Engels had led the two of them to write a book known as the, "The Communist Manifesto" in which he explained his idea and theory on Government, he believed in the basic idea of Communism.

Communism is a political ideology that promotes a classless society, which based on common ownership. The basic means for it is that everyone gets to share, there was no means of privacy, or private ownership. It was the idea that if Communism were to be a internationally known and used, the world would be a much better place. There were many intellectual thinkers and leaders who used this system as the basis of their government. Political leaders like Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin had used this system in their respective countries. Though Communism is a great vision, it would lead to wars and dictatorship.

Karl Marx wanted Communism to take over the world because he believed that it was a great system of government and in fact it was, but many people did not see this system the same way as he did. The entire "sharing is caring deal" could get out of hand as there are many people who are greedy and would want everything to themselves. Another reason why would be because a classless society, where everybody would be entitled to share everything and no one would have something as their own would have seemed like the perfect thing, but the fact that it just was not, just like you can't change every ones way of thinking.

Karl Marx viewed the workers as the "good guys" and the company or industry owners as the "bad guy." Another idea of Marx, which is widely known as Marxism, which was basically the sympathy for the idea of working class people. Marx wanted workers to take responsibility into their own hands and take over the industries, by over throwing the industry owners. He believed that "the workers of the world should unite" as one to take over the industries, as derived from a famous communism quote from "the communist manifesto."