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Communism Created By Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels

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Communism

Tony Olivera

Jose Marti Mast 6-12 Academy

Communism is a philosophy and form of government that has been used all over the world. It was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For the most part it has failed to build stable and prosperous nations. What factors caused communism to fail? Can we identify those factors and avoid it entirely? We must try to, and preserve our successful form of government.

The creators of communism are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 into a well off German family. He eventually attended university and this is when his interest and critique of religion and government began. When he went to university he joined the Young Hegelian movement, and he produced a radical critique of Christianity (Kreis, 2000). After the critique in the Young Hegelian movement he became an editor for Rheinische Zeitung powerful liberal newspaper. After some controversial articles by Marx the Prussian government shut it down. He then went to France. During his time in France he "became a communist and set down his views in a series of writings known as the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844), which remained unpublished until the 1930s." (Kreis, 2000). The writings explained his disdain for capitalism, and how he thought communism would fix all of capitalism's problems. The most important thing that happened during his time in France was

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