Question: Give a basic history of Karl Marx and his ideals. This essay gives a brief ouline of Karl Marx's life and history, including his long life friendship with Frederick Engels. It lists some of his works, and contains quoting from the communist manefesto - Marx and Engels most inspiring work. ------------------------------------------------------------ Karl Marx is the most definitive socialist thinker to emerge from the 19th Century. His extremely contentious and controversial views were rejected in …
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…it was the collapse of the capitalist system that he was relying on to achieve his process of Utopian communism. Marx perceives socialism as not making appeals but demands. It speaks not of rights but of the new form of life which replaces the old social order. In theory Marx had developed a near perfect scenario, however in practice exploitation from within the system led to its demise, and the failure of Marx's Utopian dream.