Origin of Communism

Answer 1

Karl Marx was the creator of the economic & political system called Communism. In the middle of the 19th century Karl Marx, a German writer and economist founded what many historians call modern socialism. He was exiled from Prussia when the so-called 1848 Revolution failed in Europe and he settled in England.

Marx wrote several books that he believed was the solution to the exploitation of workers in the industrialized nations in Europe. He co-authored the Communist Manifesto with German industrialist Friedrich Engels. This was published in 1848. Marx's "socialism" was different from classical socialist thought. He believed that the socialists of Europe and eventually the Fabien Socialists of England were not propagandizing a real solution to the Capitalist economic system. The socialists that envisioned a peaceful transition from Capitalism to Socialism was an Utopian dream. Marx's version of placing the means of production in the hands of the proletarian workers called for a violent revolution. Marx followed the Communist Manifesto with an economic tome titled Das Kapital. Then later his Critique of Political Economy was published. the revolution however had to be in an industrial country that had a large population of workers and labor unions that understood his economics. England and Germany were the nations he & Engels believed had the best chance of success. As history tells us, no industrial nation ever had a revolution of the proletariat. Russia and later China were unsuitable for the eventual revolution as their economies were based on agriculture, not the numbers of workers & the industry they supported.