Monday, October 5, 2015

During the Industrial Revolution, what was Karl Marx's solution to the situation of the proletariat?

In a more direct and specific sense, Karl Marx's solution
to the problem of the working class was violent revolution.  He believed class conflict
between worker and the wealthy owners was inevitable, and that such conflict should come
in the form of armed revolution to remove the government, start over, and put in place a
government of the working class, with profit being illegal, and all property owned by
the state.


He believed the profit motive was why workers
were being exploited so badly at the time, and that people of wealth and privilege would
never give those things up voluntarily.  In this way, he believed Marxism/communism was
the natural evolution of a government.  All class struggle, he argued, would eventually
lead to it.

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