Karl Marx

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"To sell a man a fish, he can eat for a day, to teach a man to
fish, is to ruin a great business opportunity, says Karl Marx."Marx and
Engels did a great thing when they wrote the “Communist Manifesto”.
They tried to liberate the proletariat by educating him. This was and
still is an enormous task that they took on. I will try to take a
closer look at the “Communist Manifesto” and its main ideas. Here are
some of the things that Karl Marx wrote in the “Communist Manifesto”.
That he believed should be looked at for the communist revolution to
take place. To begin, the abolition of property in land and application
of all rents of land to public purposes, a heavy progressive or
graduated income tax, abolition of all rights of inheritance, fourth
confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels,
centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands
of the state, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan, eight equal obligation of all to work, and last was free education for all children in public schools, also there are a few more he belived in.(Communist Manifesto). To start, during the time the Communist Manifesto was written by Marx, these were very important issues to deal with. The capitalist countries such as England and America, where private property was the basis of the entire economy, and they rejected these notion of throwing out the class structures. Marx looked at England as a model and leader of capitalism and industry and if he were alive
today he would consider America to be a huge model of this. One of the
main reasons for these countries rejecting Marx’s view is that they
regarded him as a German philosopher who was educated in the field of
German metaphysics. This was unappealing to the minds of capitalists
(Capital vii). Marx’s the...