Essay - Karl Marx is Known for His Stand Against Capitalism. in...

KARL MARX is known for his stand against capitalism. In ***** various works, he had attacked capitalism for its lack of concern for workers. This was again the theme in his famous work The Communist Manifesto where he explained in clear terms why his attack ***** justified. He felt that capitalist led to cruel pursuit of monetary ambitions which resulted in reduced human value, unfair wage structure, inhuman work conditions, unethical work practices and acute class struggle. Thus ***** completely disapproved ***** industrialization ***** ***** practices established under a capitalist economic system. Marx did not essentially have anything against industrialization but he felt that ***** combined with capitalism was the root cause of many social and economic ills. He was not a supporter of free trade ei*****r for it ***** weakened state's control of resources that Marx had advocated so vehemently. "***** bourgeoisie has through its exploitation ***** the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagr***** of reactionaries, it ***** drawn from under ***** feet of industry the national ground on which it s*****od." [The Communist Manifesto]

***** argued ***** in ***** system, ***** are underpaid ***** overworked and this largely results in severe economic disparities, ***** fur*****r lead to social gaps. What we know about rich getting richer was actually a concept first introduced by K*****rl Marx as he believed that with capitalist bourgeois amassing wealth and using unskilled poor workers to achieve t*****ir objectives, ***** was likely to turn in***** a living hell for most urban poor.

The modern bourgeois society ***** has sprouted ***** the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonism. It has but established new *****es, new conditions ***** oppression, ***** forms of struggle in place of the old ones" [The ***** Manifesto]

***** maintained that ***** system ***** essentially grounded in greed that results in misuse ***** power and wealth. He felt that as businessmen under ***** system amassed wealth, they further contributed to the deterioration of ***** conditions of the poor especially urban poor working in factories.

Needless to say, Marx's views were challenged ***** many. Those who had experienced benef***** of ***** simply refused to accept that it was an inherently flawed *****. Similarly those who had seen the adv*****tages accruing from capitalism to economies, countries and ***** societies also questioned the validity of Marx's theories.

***** the same manifes*****, Karl Marx ***** made some crude those effective remarks ***** role ***** women in a capitalist *****. ***** ***** important remark in this connection was made ra*****r early ***** the document when the authors write: "Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labor, more or less expensive to use, acc*****ding to their age and sex." What Marx and Engels meant by this was simply that by supporting equality for men and women, the differences between sex and *****s had disappeared under capitalism which ***** wrong