How Did Karl Marx Contribute To The Rise Of Capitalism

During the 1800 hundred's Capitalism was strong in Europe and America. Through Capitalism, businesses earned money through the labor of workers who worked 14 -18 hours each day in a unsafe working environment. Despite all their labors, workers barely earned enough to support their family's. Also, during that time period there were no laws against child labor. That meant that children were probably sent to work in factories without a chance for an education. But in 1847 change started to happen. In this year the international worker's group turned to a German philosopher named Karl Marx to create a plan that would better their lives. Karl Marx drew up a plan known as: The Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Marx's plan was to create a workers revolt that would be followed by paradise in which each person worked to his ability and would earn money according to his need. Marx saw what his plan would end up as. World wide economic equality for all. Thankfully, labor laws were passed during the time Marx was thinking up his plan, making workplaces safer and more tolerable for workers. Thus Marx's plan never came to pass. But Communism still thrived.

But the Socialist party was split in two. Group one, the Socialists, worked for Communism by slowly passing new laws. The second group, the Communists, remained true to Marx's original idea: a workers revolt. The Communists were a small extremist group led by a man named Vladimir Lenin and through Lenin, they formed a new political party known as the Bolshevik Party. During this time Russia was ruled by a Czarists government, led by Czar Nicholas II. Workers in Russia still were being under paid and living on land owned by a landlord. In a sense this was a type of slavery, which the people of Russia did not enjoy. This was the start of the Russian