Karl Marx's View Of Class Revolution

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“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution”; this was said by Karl Marx. “The philosophers hitherto have interpreted the world in various ways, but what matters is to change it.” (Marx). The purpose of philosophy is to change the world for the better. Karl Marx is a modern philosopher that created the fundamental proposition. The fundamental proposition has three parts.The first part is that economics determines everything, this includes politics and the thinking standards. The second part of the proposition, is that history is a series of class struggle. Marx states “the history of these class struggles form a series of evolutions in which, nowadays, a stage has been reached where the exploited and …show more content…

Locke believed in a direct democracy allowing the people to choose their representatives. He says that being in a situation with no government, you are in the state of nature. People also need government because of how selfish human nature is. Marx believes that the communist party solely represents the Proletarians. A communist party is a system of social organization in which all economic activity is controlled by a single political party. Also, he states the communist party is more advance than anyone else because of private property which is meant to be a relation of individuals and means of production . Comparing Marx to Thucydides, Thucydides says that “human nature being what it is will at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. ” (Thucydides 48) He believes that history will repeat itself, as opposed to Marx who believes that all teachings are relevant to its time period and not by nature therefore, history will end. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, the setting is outside in a terrible storm, also known as the tempest near a cave. The storm is caused by nature. The cave makes a reference to the Allegory of the Cave from Plato’s The Republic. This is the beginning of philosophy and questioning. Shakespeare is aware of philosophy throughout The Tempest. Antonio who is the King of Naples, and Ferdinand his son are a reference to Machiavelli’s The Prince. In The Prince, Machiavelli is writing to prince Lorenzo trying to unite and liberate

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