Karl MarxBy Anna Nicchia, Chris Tolentino,

Huseyin Bayram

Nation

• Born in Germany in 1818

• Died in 1883 German philosopher, economist,

sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist

Rise to Power

• Karl Marx was a philosopher

• He was the founder of Marxism

• Marxism spread to France, Germany, Belgium, and other places where there was a large industrial proletariat

Beliefs/Ideas

Marxism- believed in social and economical equality, a classless society, the workers work and produce more value than they are paid, social ladder allows anyone to move up, no one can own property, the more you earn the more you pay.

Believed that the working class are the ones with power and will rise in the end.

Capitalism should be replaced by Communism

Goals

• Spread Marxism

• Made people understand that the working class were the ones with power

• Wrote the communist Manifesto

Impact on Nation

• Spread Marxism in Germany

• Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto which explained his ideas and beliefs and the history of the working class movement

Impact on the World

• Marxism was spread in more places than Germany

• Others followed his beliefs• People believed that Communism should

replace Capitalism and, like him, thought the working class were the ones should have the power.

• Communism was adapted to other nations like Cuba, China and Russia in other forms but they all followed the basic rules of communism. No one class can hold power over another.

Regents Questions

• Q: A main idea of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles’ Communist Manifesto is that the proletariat…

• A: Must unite to overthrow the capitalist class • Q: According to the theories of Karl Marx, history can be

viewed as a…• A: Continuous struggle between economic classes • Q: Which revolution inspired Karl Marx and Friedrich

Engels to express their ideas in The Communist Manifesto?

• A: Industrial