Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and rebellious socialist. He was born to a middle-class family on May 5th, 1818. A long line of Marx's family members were Rabbis, but Marx's dad converted to Lutheranism to avoid anti-Semitism before Marx was born. Marx was born in Prussia, which is now Germany and his parents were Jewish ( www.plao.stanford.edu/ ). Marx was home-schooled by his dad until high school, then he went to Bonn University because his dad wanted him to become a lawyer. However, Marx was more interested in philosophy and literature (www.biography.com).
After the first year at university, Marx got married to Jenny von Westphalon. She was a low class citizen. In 1836 Marx enrolled in
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He said, ''it's run by the middle and upper classes only for their benefits''( www.history.com/). Marx said capitalism would lead to internal fighting within the country which would lead the society to self destruct. He said socialism would come into play after the society destroyed itself. There would be a cashless society, which would not have classes, everyone would earn the same wages. He called his theory Communism. The difference between socialism and Capitalism is they are both formal economies that are different based on different roles of the government and equality of economics.
Socialism, which Marx write about and agreed with, is when the country is controlled by the state, not the people. The government owns and distributes what the people need, for example, medical care, food, clothing and shelter. There is no private property in a socialistic state. The government owns and rules everything. Karl Marx says socialism is, ''a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that he means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole''. ( www.dictionary.com