What Is Karl Marx Right To Capitalism

In the 19th century Karl Marx, a university educated philosopher, started a job as a journalist. He was forced into writing about economics and popularized the term capitalism, which in his point of view was very negative. When he began to collaborate with Friedrich Engels, a German radical, his theoretical ideas of capitalism really started to take shape. Engels had observed and studied some of the factories that his father owned in England and was horrified by the working conditions of the laborers. Engels and Marx started to develop and share their ideas.

Marx and Engels saw history though a materialist theory. This meant that they were concerned about the production of material goods and how that production influenced the owners and the laborers throughout history. Marx based his ideas of capitalism on what he had seen personally. Marx saw the factory and land owners becoming very rich and having a luxurious life style while the laborers were poor and leading very hard lives. Marx believed that the inequality of the lives between workers and owner would create anger among workers and start a revolt. In the 19th century there where very few working situations that were ideal in any aspect. I do believe that Marx was right about capitalism in the 19th century because most of the workers were in many ways exploited. Of course I realize that there are people …show more content…
Marx introduced a social theory, which would combat the negative effects of capitalism. This theory was called communism, which he introduced in The Communist Manifesto. In The Communist Manifesto, he actually encouraged all workers in all nations to unite and overthrow capitalism. Most governments cracked down on any attempts to overthrow capitalism. Marx had to relocate to England to flee the governments of mainland Europe who did not agree with his