Communism

            The beginning of the communism
             Social structure classes go far back to the ancient Greeks. Therefore, diverse forms of government have existed long time ago, including capitalism, monarchy, socialism, dictatorship, and theocracy. Still, nobody talk about it until the father of communism, Karl Marx started to analyze that ideology and their facts. Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, theoretician and a revolutionary. He was born in 1842, Germany, and he was of a Jewish descendent. Marx died in 1883. During his lifetime, his thinking influenced some of the historical events happened in our time. Therefore, without any uncertainties, Karl Marx was the most powerful socialist thinker that appears in the 19th century. He discarded the idealism of Hegel but was influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach and Moses Hess. In England 1848, Marx and another important theoretician, Friedrich Engels, wrote together The Communism Manifesto. The book includes the principles and ideas of communism analyzing the society, in particularly the capitalism economy. What is the communism ideology? It's the doctrine of the conditions of the freedom of the working class. Moreover, "an authoritive dictionary defines communism as: Any system of social organization in witch goods are held in common. A doctrine and program based upon revolutionary Marxian socialism as developed by N. Lenin and the Bolshevik party, which interprets history as a relentless class war eventually to result everywhere in the victory of the proletariat..." (Swearingen, page 7). In Marxist theory, the proletariat class can absolutely have wisdom such as discipline, organization, rationality and education. These qualities and others can help the working class to be educated so they can rule a country, a land or maybe even the world. Terms, for instance, as "historical materialism", "surplus value" and "class struggle" can describe more...

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