Karl Marx And Feudalism

Throughout the history, money, wealth and capital ruled over the way that millions of people lived. It has divided people to the rich and poor; the ones who were dictated by their wealth and the ones that work for them. Karl Marx was the first person, who focused on the analyze of how the capitalist society works, how did it come to this point from feudalism and where is it going to lead. “Marxism” is Karl Marx’s analysis of the growing and complicated relations of two main classes – bourgeoisie and proletariats. Marxism was firstly founded by Karl Marx, but there is a big role of Friedrich Engels on the development and spreading of the theory. As Pf. Scott Gordon wrote in his book, The History and Philosophy of Social Science: “Engels cannot

The ideology of Karl Marx, communism, was the next step of the socialism. Considering the fact that, socialism used to reduce the gap between rich and poor by taking more taxes from rich and helping others, there is a contrast between socialism and communism. Even if it seems like a utopia, communism supports the elimination of economic classes by government and the authors argued on the great possibility of it in the book. In the communist society that was asserted by Karl Marx, all the property should be ruled by the government, thus there would be no upper or lower classes. This book created a reflection in the Europe and in a short passage of time there was a reduce in labor hours, increase in wages and labor unions has been created, which was the association for the protection of rights of proletarian class. Besides the economic advantages of the book, there is a disadvantage of the social and economic impact of The Communist Manifesto and probably it is the only weakness of the book. During the whole book, the ideas on the protection of rights of working class only cover the workers in the urban areas. The authors did not mention about the rights of workers in the rural areas and this deficiency still reflects as a disadvantage, which is considered to be the weakest part of

Starting from 1848, the year it was published, until now there are lots of political consequences of the book. The Communist Manifesto, generally Marxism theory, initially was just a reason of conflicts between the working class and capitalists, but afterwards it has turned into the big ideology and even a political power. In the end of 19th century, Marxists have become a political power in the Europe and beginning from that century they have achieved to the creation of the powerful socialist and communist parties. The small worker rebellions have expanded in the beginning of the 20th century. The people who were influenced by Marxism, especially the book, The Communist Manifesto, have started to follow this ideology and as a consequence in 1917, under the command of Russian communist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin they have started October Revolution against Czarist Empire. After this revolution, one of the biggest states in the world, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic has created and ruled with the ideology of communism. As another example, we can give a Cuban Revolution leaded by communist revolutionary Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. After this revolution, Cuba also started to be ruled under the communist ideology. Moreover, during the Cold War socialist and capitalist countries have imposed sanctions and wars against each others, such as Vietnam War and Korean War. The