Founding Fathers Of Communism: Karl Marx

Karl Marx is one of the founding fathers of Communism. He believed more in the right of the people and thought they should escape from a capitalist society. Marx believed that economics is more important to politics than freedom and was bothered by the lack of equality and freedom to citizens. His vision and approach proved to be successful and revolutionary. Marx’s conception of a ‘species being’ is the biological and evolutionary characteristics of mankind. He believes that as biological beings we have compulsory living necessities, like sleep, and spiritual needs, like love. Emotional, physical, and mental all are important aspects for existence and a virtuous happiness.When living in a capitalist economy, one of the issues that arises is
workers’ inability to express their views on the labor and management. This makes them feel exploited and alienated from society. There is a class divide that suits arrangement for people depending on human nature. I believe alienation from our classes is a true problem in capitalism, employees are being alienated via to competition with themselves and no freedom.
In The Communist Manifesto section titled Bourgeois and Proletariats, Marx describes class struggles. He describes, “freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master.....oppressor and oppressed” these dualisms also describe the relationship between bourgeoisie and proletarians. (1185) The bourgeoisie are the wealthy members of society, making money from the working class. The Bourgeoisie turned the working people into their servants, making them dependent on them and turning laborers into non-humans by making them work so much for so little, “[the bourgeoisie] has converted the physician the man of science the priest and the poet into its paid wage-laborers” (1187). The proletariats were forced to work in order to survive “by proletariat, the class of modern wage-labourers who, by having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour- power in order to live” (1185). Marx thought that the constant struggle between these two social groups needed to cease and then everything would resolve. There is a constant competition for works. Employees are competing with each other for the same job which could be harmful for workers because it divides all of them and potentially turn on each other. Working with others can lead to rivalry.
Capitalism is also a problem when employees are being alienated from their work.
Since the capitalists are in charge of the employees they are in charge of everything from salary, hours, and working conditions. There are very bad working conditions by working with machines and tedious and long hours for the workers. Workers are being taken advantage of and cannot do much about it. This relates to Karl Marx when he uses the term “alienated labor” to describe the people class or proletariats who he believes get taken advantage of for purely their work. Employees are being exploited and not being treated unfairly due to capitalism. Marx points out what is most important to him is to not take advantage of the working class. Marx prioritized his theories by putting economy first of freedom. Marx thought that when the proletariats and the bourgeoisie were able to equal out their social issues then there would be a perfect and peaceful society. Marx writes that “the distinguishing nature of communism is...the abolition of bourgeois property” (1192), which shows that he believes people should not just become their work and they should get some of the property that they enslaved themselves over. His brand-new ideas that turned into communism, is founded on the idea that the bourgeoisie relied on the property that the proletariats made, the bourgeoisie survived off the alienated labor of the proletariats but this was not acceptable. He agrees that there should be more equality on property in work, focusing on freedom, and specifically with economic freedom. HOW DO I ANALYSE THIS KURT I THOUGHT I
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I believe Karl Marx’s communist theory was revolutionary because he proposes the elimination of classes by sharing the benefits of labor equally among the workers and the leaders. His main points are that capitalism is alienating which leads capitalism to exploitation. The concept of species being is a dividing class that separates people based on human nature It is this sharing of benefits that reduces or eliminates the alienation workers feel toward their work. It’s a fulfillment of his “species being”. Marx stated that we are “a species being” or we all have basic needs that need to be met. He believes that capitalism does not promote the fulfillment of those needs due to the alienation concept.