Karl Marx Theory: Bourgeoisie And Proletariat

Elements: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie was of the upper class, shopkeepers, property owners, upper class. The proletariat was the working class, earned minimum wage, labor is their only material value, lower class. Class rankings were apart of the European history as well as the future. Communist wanted to do away with rankings by the country being classless, yet owning nothing, earning just enough to live. This would make each person a paid wage labourer, no matter the title they carried. Marx theory was to live in a classless system and each person have a strong work ethic, as well as

His parents both came from a background of rabbis. His father, Heinrich Marx was a lawyer, and his mother, Henriette was a dutchwoman.His family was considered to be middle class. His father was banned from practicing law because of his Jewish religion, and had converted to Lutheranism in 1817. Karl Marx attended a lutheran Elementary School. He attended Faculty of Law at the University of Bonn. While he was here he met Jenny von Westphalen, but he did not attend very long. He then attended the University of Berlin where he earned a doctoral degree. Karl Marx was forced to leave France and moved to Brussels, Belgium. He started the German Workers ' Party, and was then forced to leave Belgium, and caused him to move back to Cologne. Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen were married in October of 1843 and decided to move to Paris. He was forced to leave France after the publication of his newspaper. They moved to London, where he remained upon his demise, even though Britain denied him citizenship. He and his wife bore 7 children, in which 4 had died in early childhood or infancy. Before his demise he helped found The German Worker 's Educational Society, a new headquaters for a communist league, and he worked for New York Daily Tribune for 10 years , and was his means of income. He was not paid very well and Friedrich Engels would help him financially. He only wrote 5 books but many

His father owned a textile factory in Barmen, as well as owned part of a cotton plant in Manchester, England. He dropped out one year before graduation after attending a secondary school. His father had pushed for him to work at the factory, in which he did for about three years. While living in Bremen he had published articles under the name of Fredrick Oswald. He enlisted as a volunteer for a year in artillery regiment in Berlin. Upon his discharge from the military, he met with Moses Hess, the man whom introduced him to communism. He had decided to pursue more buisness education and went to the family buisness in Manchester. . He took notes on child labor, and what life was like of working laborers. While living in Manchester, he met Mary Burns, a typical uneducated working girl, in which he lived with as husband and wife, but was never married. Engels returned to Germany in 1844 where he met with Marx in paris. He published two articles with the help of Marx “The Holy Family” and “ The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844”. IN 1848 Marx and Engels saw an opportunity to become part of a Revolution. Communist Congress in London adopted the views of Marx and Engels and published the Communist Manifesto in 1848. They found most of the conflict to be in their own country of Prussia. He had help fund Karl Marx writings and he supported his work. Mary passed away in 1863,