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Marxism

Karl Marx made his opinions and beliefs very clear to the world. Through the Communist Manifesto, Marx makes numerous points about Marxism. He also describes his feelings about how the worker is seen and used by society. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx also speaks about what course he sees the dialectic taking.
Marx made four major points in the Manifesto. Historical materialism, class struggle, dialectic, and communists were those four major points. Historical materialism described people think and act was determined by the way in which they made their living. As a result a society’s economic system made up its foundation. Also, according to Marx the driving force of history was what people went after for money (the economic change). Another major point was class struggle. Marx classified the two groups that society was broken down into as the bourgeoisie (the haves) and the proletariat (the have nots). Marx believed that political power is merely the organized power of one ...

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