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dogmeatjones25 t1_j28m5d5 wrote

Karl Marx was a philosopher who lived a long time ago.

Marx believed that there were two main groups of people in society: the bourgeoisie, who owned the businesses and factories, and the proletariat, who worked for them. He thought that the bourgeoisie were always trying to make more money and get ahead, even if it meant exploiting the proletariat and keeping them poor.

Marx believed that there should be a revolution, where the proletariat would rise up and take control of the businesses and factories, so that everyone could work together and share the wealth more equally. This idea is called communism.

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Luckbot t1_j28oehj wrote

>Marx believed that there should be a revolution

Slight correction:

Marx believed that there inevitably MUST be a proletarian revolution as logical next step after the bourgeois revolution (french revolution and later the 1848 springtime of nations) kicked out the aristocracy. He thought it was a natural law that this second revolution would eventually come when the proletariat that originally supported the liberal revolution realized that they didn't gain anything from it yet.

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Foddor088outside OP t1_j28x8eb wrote

Did he ever predict when this second revolution comes around?

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Chazmer87 t1_j294for wrote

He specifically mentions that it will occur in the richest most developed and technologically advanced country in the world.

It was one of the criticisms of China and Russia, they tried to create communism without a large base of workers, map actually created his own theories based on farmers.

That being said, his writings haven't aged well at all, reading it with a modern lens you can see how aged it is.

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Luckbot t1_j28y2dx wrote

"Once the working class realizes it's being exploited"

But the revolution he predicted came, and it turned out way different than he expected (the russian revolution)

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