Karl Marx was a German philosopher, journalist, economist, and a revolutionary sociologist who had many radical ideas that leaders of state governments found as a threat, but revolutionists found inspirational. He was born into a wealthy middle class family who came from a long line of Rabbis in 1818 in Trier, Prussia. He was one of the first social scientists to focus mainly on social classes, and came up with the belief that capitalism created prosperity for few and poverty for many. Which meant one social class dictated one social life, where wealthy families lived in leisure and abundance, while the non wealthy lived in poverty and hardship. Marx studied capitalism sufficiently and most of his writings focused on problems with capitalism …show more content…
Globalization is known for increasing the ability to move capital through the transfer of goods or services where capitalists seek to gain advantage over each other by the process of capitalist accumulation, which involves increasing profits and lowering costs. Karl Marx argued that an expansion of markets and a greater flow of goods or services would be the cause of a capitalist society. He believed history goes through stages, which became known as “historical materialism” created by his lifelong friend ,Frederick Engels, who had published “The Communist Manifesto” with him. He had viewed the stages in an economic perspective. He saw that those with higher productive abilities would get rid of those with less. The system with the highest productive faculties is known as capitalism. Marx saw capitalism as contradictory, because it brought two primary classes known as the capitalists,and the proletariat. The capitalists own the means of production and the proletariat were wage laborers who had to sell their labor power in order to survive. These two classes end up clashing, resulting in the proletariat taking over the means of production and ending in