Friday, November 20, 2009

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was born a German in Europe. He was born a Jew but his family converted in the Christianity. He did not believe in god, he thought that it was a drug to belive in god. When he went to work, He though it was very unfair unsafe and very harsh how the landlords treated thier workers. He told his ideas to the workers and they decided it was time to unite the workers and fight the land owners for what should be thiers.

Karl Marx Felt that lands and property should belong to the people not the government. His Ideas were called " Communism ". But, In Communist countrys they did not use it this way. There was the equal pay, but the government ran the property, all the buisnesses and all the land.They censored people from posting negative things about the government or what they are really doing. People who spoke of term about the government were treated harshly. Karl Marx died ion 1883 but in 1917, His ideas were used in Bolshevik Revolution. There were many Communist governments starting after world war II. They over threw governments.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl marx had an idea for all the working people. This idea was called " Communism ". Communism is that everyone gets payed the same wage. If person works as a doctor and someone is a garbage man, they both get payed the same. This also meant that people did not own anything. Buisnesses were run by the government. Homes and property were run by the government aswell. This is Karl Marx's Idea of communism and he wanted to spread it all over the world.

Karl Marx wanted all workers to be on like the same level. Karl Marx wanted this because people before were not getting payed what they were supposed to so he though everyone getting payed the same will be the fairest way. Marx didn't want people getting payed unfairly, like if youre a doctor and you got payed as much as a drug dealer or getting less / extra money.

The "good guys" were the factory workers who didn't like the way they were being treated and workedlong hours for low wages and less time breaks. The "Bad Guys" are the Factory owners who controlled everything that happens in the factory because they controlled the workers.