What is Karl Marx's argument against capitalism?

Answer 1

Marx's argument against capitalism is that it resulted in the creation of a class struggle between the owners and controllers of the means of production in society (the Bourgeoisie) and the mass of common laborers (the Proletariat) who were oppressed and exploited by the Bourgeoisie. Capitalism is designed to extract as much surplus value from the labor of the workers (profits) as it possibly can. In order to maximize profits capitalists force the Proletariat to work to a point where their lives, health and ability to enjoy life in general deteriorates.

Answer 2

Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed it created prosperity for only a few and poverty for many. With that said, Marx welcomed the rise of capitalism because as this economic system advanced, it led the way to the workers' revolt and the advent of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Without capitalism, there would be no industrial base in which the workers could use to advance socialism and eventually communism.

Answer 3

Marx thought it would change the means of production.

It wasn't that capitalism would change the means of production. It was a change in the means of production that created capitalism.

Marx disliked capitalism because he saw it as the means by which one class of people, the bourgeoisie, were able to exploit and oppress another class of people, the proletariat. This oppression led to a diminished quality of life for proletarians just so that the bourgeoisie could reap more profits by exploiting the common worker.

According to Marx. society is a series of class struggles with one social class always exploiting and oppressing another. Capitalism was no different.

Ultimately, Karl Marx, though brilliant, was so indolent he would not provide for his own family, which caused them to live in deep poverty. Only the indolent reap positive benefits from communism. The true workers as well as other classes lose significantly in the long run.

You can't plan the economy of any society on a grand scale. It is beyond human ability to be able to anticipate the needs and services.

Remember, despite the high sounding doctrines, the Soviet Union failed and collapsed on itself, and the Chinese had to abandon true communism for functional capitalism in order for the regime to survive. One fourth of the population of the world has proven through experience and profound failure that communist doctrines do not describe reality.

Marx's doctrines proved out in historical experience to ultimately be self deceptions, which is a nice way of saying all lies--and at the cost of fifty million lives.

Furthermore, at the height of the Cold War, both President Eisenhower and Premiere Khrushchev went home to their wives at night.

At the height of the Cold War, the head of what was seen as the rugged individualist west, and the head of what was seen as the great collective east, both were family men that actually lived in a kinsman order, though they were blinded to it in their own eyes because of the false social doctrines they both believed.

The true grounds of the human order is the family, not individualism or collectivism.

Both the east and the west live in a world of misconceptions and lies.

The extended family unit should own all property--no government, no corporation, and no collective should own any real property.

This is the third way and no one sees it. But it goes back to the roots of human experience and, in the end, it will prove to be the only just way.

Answer 4

Karl Marx did not like capitalism because the poor in a capitalistic (market) economy do not enjoy the luxuries of the rich and middle class. Therefore, Marx made his own economic idea called Communism (see Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto) that is meant to let everyone enjoy the same quality of life.

Answer 5

Karl Marx and his partner, Friedrich Engels believed that the working classes suffered under capitalism. With that said, Marx welcomed the advent of capitalism in that this economic system was the necessary step towards a workers' revolution that would bring forth the next stage in human history, communism. With that said, the successful workers' revolution would then create the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The collectivism of the means of production would then usher in a new world of communism and a classless society.

Answer 6

Because it inevitably involved exploitation, poverty and inequality.

Answer 7

because your mom told him to