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Karl Marx

Karl Marx’s ideal society was one in which all of the people were equal. The

proletariats (the workers in society) and the bourgeoisie (the owners) would no longer be

the workers and owners, because there would be no owners, and everyone would work

for themselves. With this theory the people would form a society based on equality. Marx

wanted to get rid of the capitalist society all together and to do this people must start back

at square one and redevelop the society as a whole. Marx wanted the new society to be

based upon common ownership of productive resources. Marx believed that the capitalist

society was a form of domination over people. This domination produces inequality;

which Marx did not agree with. He desired an equal society where everyone was given

the opportunity to develop themselves individually and freely and where there was no

class domination. Marxist ideas rest upon a materialistic understanding about society.

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