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Karl Marx Hero

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Some regard him as a hero others as a villain but regardless of where you stand on his work, you cannot argue that his thoughts and ideas have changed the world forever. Karl Marx, believed that capitalist society was broken down into two sections; the bourgeois, who consisted of the elite wealthy, property, land and capital owners and the proletarians; they were the workers, the masses, the slaves. Essentially, the bourgeois where the exploiters and the proletarians where the exploited. Marx believed that this had come to pass because “the modern bourgeois society has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society” (Marx, 92). The medieval ages saw the rise of the feudal system and the creation of serfdom. However, the feudal system was the by-product
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