byzantine catholic
March 21st, 2009, 2:16 am
When Karl Marx and Friederick Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital they had two goals in mind. To create hostility between the blue collar workers and the business class was to create a violent revolution of the proletariat against the bourgeoise and to undermine capitalism itself which Marx himself hated and demonized. In Marx's deluded mind he created six stages of mankind which the first four he considered evil and oppressive. The first stage was the tribal stage where he said the hunters oppressed the gathering peoples. The second stage, Marx said, was the slavery stage where the master civilization made servants and slaves over the civilizations they conquered. The third stage was the fuedal stage where the nobles, in Marx's eyes, oppressed the peasants. The fourth stage was the capitalist stage where Marx said the middle class oppressed the blue collar workers. The fifth stage was the socialist stage where the workers overthrew the government that supported capitalism and reinstalled a new government that supported the workers and for public property going to the state. The sixth and final stage was the communist stage where there was a classless society and public property of everything. Marx's goal here was to create a socialist utopia on Earth since Marx who was an atheist did not believe in an afterlife. As you can see there are many flaws with his theory but I have never seen someone so radical have such large of a following as Marx. His theory is flawed however because nobody is willing to give up their private property and rights and if there is a classless society who will run the businesses? Later on Marx created a halfway point between capitalism and socialism which is called a regulated market where the government regulates and controls the private businesses which Marx saw as evil! Sound familiar? These philosophies are so appealing however because Marx's rhetoric makes him sound like he is out for the little guy so to speak!:))