Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He
spent most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and
economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed
that he understood more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him
why there is injustice i world.
He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one
underlying conflict in society. He called it a 'class struggle', that is,
a conflict bet the class of people who can afford to own money- producing
businesses, whom he called 'capitalists' or 'the bourgeosie', and the
class of people who do not surplus money to buy businesses and who are
therefore forced to work for wage whom he called 'workers'.
Marx said that, because it was always in the economic interest of
capita to take advantage of or 'exploit' workers, nothing could persuade
capitalists change their ways. In other words, peaceful progess toward
equality and social justice was......
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