Communism
Communism has been around for a very long time. The American Indian tribes that were here before the invasion of European culture lived a communistic life style. The first major communist revolution occurred in Russia, in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin, which ultimately failed. Karl Marx, the philosopher credited for the birth of communism, predicted it to be the last social order, that one day, when the conditions were right, the world would live in a utopian communism. In my exposition of Marx and communism, I will present ideas of my own pertaining to Marx prediction of world communism and discuss why I think him to have been right about a lot of his ideas. Despite the many problems Marxism faces he may have been more right then we know.
Karl Marx had many different philosophical theories about the ways of the world. The most interesting to me is his description of the human struggle between social economic classes and how that struggle ultimately changes the system that society operates under. Marx breaks our current capitalist society into two levels, the economic base and the superstructure. The economic base being the mode of production, or the system by which a society supports itself and the superstructure, which is a result of the economic base, that involves every other aspect of society like art, law, politics, and religion; which are the ideological reflections of the social relations of production. From this comes the bourgeois and the proletarians, which are the social classes operating in a capitalist system. The bourgeois are the factory owners or the owners of the means of production and the proletarians are the works who produce the products made with the means of produ ...