Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx is known to be one of the most influential thinkers of all time. Karl was born on May 5, 1818, and died in 1883. He is a German revolutionary and political philosopher. He was also considered to be one of the most important of all socialist thinkers and creator of a system of thought called Marxism.Marx was educated at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Jenna.
He is a bright man and a great student in which soon he became an editor of the paper after he wrote his first article to the Cologne newspaper Rheinische Zeitung. But his writings were criticizing political and social conditions, which as a result, he was in trouble with the authorities. In 1843 he wanted to resign on being an editor, so the Cologne newspaper Rheinische Zeitung was ordered to discontinue publication.
But Karl Marx inspired and helped a lot of people and changed their perspective of their lives. Karl Marx created the basic ideas of a movement called communism. He imagined a world in which everyone worked, but no one got paid because he believed everyone would be free. And he predicted that the rich would get richer and the poor would be poorer.
Karl Marx spend most of his life in the days of the Industrial Revolution. He didn't like the Industrial Revolution because of the way it is, and the way people work and sacrifice themselves for their living. His vision and perspective of the world where he lived was great and wide. In the Industrial Revolution, he saw and viewed the people who are factory owners as nobles and the people who work in factories as peasants.
But Karl Marx had pity for the workers (proletariat). And he wanted them to take control or to rise up to start a revolution (workers of the world unite!). He and Friedrich Engels wanted the workers themselves to own all businesses because they believe that if workers are in control, everyone would get what they needed and wanted to live good lives (Marx explained these ideas further more in a book called Das Kapital). This system is called Communism.
Karl Marx was inspired to have this idea of Communism because he knows that the working class and the owning class will be at war, and he knows that wouldn't be good at all. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels announced the goals of this movement in their 1848 book called The Communist Manifesto.
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