Because in hard times, people look to find fault outside themselves, and want to find some source that they can blame all their problems on; this has happened throughout history. Marx's ideas were used to cast the blame for the hard economic times on the upper class. The people would then rally around the idea of removing the elite from society and putting everyone on the same level (class envy).
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Marx's Communist ideas did not appeal to most Russians. In the 1920 elections 20% of the population voted for the Communists. Lenin seized control of the government and used that 20% to govern Russia. From then on, Russia was ruled by the Communists. The 1920 election was the only fair election Russia ever had before the 1990s. Many in Russia hated the Communist ideas. Stalin commented on the fact that so many Russians at first fought so hard at first for Germany and then for Russia. "They are not fighting for the system. They are fighting for the lesser of two evils." Stalin knew the people hated Communism.
The Marx's communist ideas appealed to most Russians for various reasons. Most people knew that they could overthrow the government using communism.
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Marx's ideas appealed to most Russians because they were tired of the way their government worked. They felt like there was too much inequality in society and Marx's ideas are mainly based around a classless society where everyone is equal. There is no one with greater wealth than you, no one more poor than you, no one with a better job, with more clothes, a better house, etc. Everyone is supposed to be the same, but this idea went terribly corrupt when everyone's lives became difficult, equal...equally terrible. EVERYONE was hungry and EVERYONE was poor.
The peasant classes lived a very poor and difficult life and had little education. Through the propaganda of the communist/Bolsheviks they though their lives would improve. Unfortunately they swapped one master for another and very little changed at the lower end of the social scale.
Karl Marx influenced a wide range of thinkers, activists, and political leaders with his communist ideas. Some notable figures include Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara. Marx's ideas also had a significant impact on the development of socialist and communist movements around the world.
Lenin followed many but not all, of Karl Marx's ideas.
No. Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. While his ideas were put into practice when the Soviet Union formed, Marx never had any official power.
Karl Marx primarily put his ideas into practice through his writings, such as "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," which outlined his theories on class struggle, capitalism, and the role of the working class in society. While Marx was not directly involved in leading or implementing any revolutionary movements himself, his ideas inspired various socialist and communist movements around the world.
Karl Marx's primary collaborator was Friedrich Engels, with whom he co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" and other works. Engels played a significant role in supporting and popularizing Marx's ideas on socialism and communism.
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The grocery store shelves were about bare, the people did not have sufficient good nor clothing, and the idea that the people who had plenty would be made to share with the less fortunate sounded good to the proleteriat. The Communist motto, from he who has it will be given and from he who has not, it will be received was exciting and a security to those who could not make it on their own. Through the years there are always "new ideas" that appeal to one group or the other, and the manifesto of Karl Marx was appealing for a time, until it was realized that Marx or communism was not the answer. Next along comes Stalin, and he too bit the dust. Learning from history means grasping that these economic theories just do not work, and that capitalism is the optimum and most fortunate economic system that was ever tried in the United States.