Why did Karl Marx think Communism was the ideal political party?

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Hazell Moore 9/10N

26th June 2004

Why did Karl Marx think Communism was the ideal political party?

Karl Marx was brought up in a Jewish community and society in his early years. His father was a lawyer, although he was descended from a long line of rabbis. As opportunities for Jews decreased Karl Marx’s father, Herschel, decided to convert from Jewish to Lutheranism, which was the Prussian states religion. The Marx family was very liberal and often held intellectual conversations and was introduced to a lot of artists.  

        Karl Marx was enrolled into the University in Bonn; this was a notorious school and was known for its bad reputation of the students that went there. His peers influenced Karl and his hobbies soon became singing in bars. His father made him transfer to a more serious and academic University in Berlin. Here Karl became interested in philosophy, to his fathers disgust of not being a lawyer, and soon adopted views of his teacher, Georg Hegel. His teacher soon became to be a big influence on Karl Marx’s opinions in political issues. And Karl soon became aware of poverty and that government control was in place. And was also aware of the religious differences in society. Karl Marx had a poor reputation as a “Young Hegelian Radical.”

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        After his teacher was dismissed from the philosophy faculty, Marx abandoned philosophy and took up journalism. Here he travelled across into Paris, Brussels and London where he also adopted new views on society and democracy. He was asked to leave in Paris because of his writings. In 1848 he was asked back to France as there was a working class movement, and was invited back. His government collapsed in 1849.

        Karl Marx believed that Communism was the ideal political party as he distinguished capitalism from merchants. Merchants bought one thing from a market and sold off to another market for ...

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