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Video Presentation on Karl Marx Video link: https://youtu.be/vhoKM-B4lDw Description of your chosen person's childhood and formal education.  Marx was a materialist, revolutionary economist, and philosopher from Germany. He was educated in a Lutheran elementary school and was born in Trier, Germany (McLellan, 2023). Later, he studied history, mathematics, literature, and languages at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Germany. At the age of seventeen, he graduated in 1835 and gained fluency in both Latin and French. After graduating, Marx enrolled at Germany's Bonn University. While his father had wanted him to become a lawyer, Marx had a stronger interest in literature and philosophy. After that, he changed schools and enrolled at the University of Berlin, where he befriended other radical intellectuals and eventually earned a doctorate there in 1841. Marx is credited with creating contemporary "scientific" socialism, a form of government in which private property is not recognized. Description of your chosen person's worldview as shaped by the locations and times he lived in.  His core beliefs, known as Marxism, serve as the cornerstone of the global socialist and communist movements, which are defined by a system of government and economics in which all citizens own property and goods jointly (Chambre, 2023). Marx believed that class conflict would always exist in an organization that relies on wage labor. Marx believed that workers would ultimately seize power because of this class struggle. He

thought that no economic class should be in a position of power over another, including wage workers and landowners.  Marx thought that everyone ought to receive what they need and make whatever contribution they are able to. He held that economics is the fundamental source of all human values, including morality, religion, and social structures. Because he thought that religion discouraged people from demanding social change by lessening the pain of oppression, he saw religion as a conservative force that prevented social change by fostering false consciousness. In addition, he thinks that because of its inherent contradictions, capitalism would eventually come to an end and cause dangerous instability.  Because workers did not own the means of production, he believed that capitalism alienated the working class. His opinions were influenced by the topics being discussed at the time and by the school he attended, which among other things questioned economic and religious systems. As a result, the lessons he was taught influenced his opinions. Examples of your chosen person's contributions to the concepts of communism.  The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx to clarify the objectives of Communism and the underlying theory of the movement. It makes the case that historical developments are driven by class struggles or the exploitation of one class by another and that these developments are unavoidable. He maintained that capitalism is fundamentally unstable, and his theory served as the theoretical foundation for several later variations on

communism. Marx's ideas, such as the rejection of private property and the notion that capitalism was unstable, were widely adopted in communism. Discussion on whether your chosen person's concepts of communism have a place in modern American society.  According to Karl Marx's conception of communism, all aspects of society, economics, and politics are integrated into a single, flawless, classless, automatic, government-less system built on social equality and shared ownership of all economic means of production. As a result, these ideas are out of place in contemporary American culture, where many immigrants come to pursue the American Dream, which enables them to advance socially and reap the rewards of their labors, while the central ideas of communism are equality and the abolition of private property to achieve economic equality. They reject capitalism and think that all people should have equal access to resources, doing away with social classes. Karl Marx's ideas of communism have no place in contemporary American society because the country has a capitalist economy that many people support and desire.

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References Chambre, H. and McLellan, . David T. (2023, November 11). Marxism. Encyclopedia Britannica . https://www.britannica.com/topic/Marxism Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. (1996). The Communist manifesto . London ; Chicago, Ill. :Pluto Press, McLellan, D. T. and Feuer, . Lewis S. (2023, November 7). Karl Marx. Encyclopedia Britannica . https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx

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