Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is when everyone has the same pay (wealth) and social class. It is where the wealth would be split amongst each other and is derived from the word common. No matter what your occupation is you will still make the same amount as everybody else. 

This may seem unfair to those who work harder and deserve more money but communism tends to be for the people who need the money. This way wealth is equal amongst all people meaning that everyone is on the same level when it comes to their class. There are no more high classed people hogging all the money while all the lower class people are doing all the work. Karl Marx believed that history was a struggle between classes. 

The way things were running at the time was Capitalism which he found really unfair due to the fact that workers would work hard in factories but the owners of the factory would hold most of the money. The owners in this came would be considered the "bad guys" while the hard working people were "good guys." He thought that they should rebel against this system so they can finally be free from the owners of the factories that steal their hard earned money. He had believed communism to be the type of government where the commons or the workers would be in control.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Marx disliked the Industrial Revolution, which he had called capitalism. He thought the conditions in the factories in Europe were too rough and dangerous for workers. He believed that instead of the factories should be owned by the workers themselves and not landlords. He thought that people were born into a world where they can't make changes in society. That was a problem. He urged the workers to unite and break free of this hold and change society for themselves and become an individual. He believed that when one was born that there pathway in life was already chosen and one had to break free off all the laws, and religion that bind that person in with the rest of the world.

When he told everyone to unite a new term was given to this movement. It was called communism. Communism derives from the word "common." For everyone in the world should be a separate individual and be the same in each way no matter what gender or age. When capitalism would be taken down by this revolution the money workers made would be equal amongst one another depending on what he did and how much he needed it. In the end his "utopia would be a place where there are no social classes and workers were individuals in society.