Karl Marx and communism

He was born a Jew, but his father converted the family to Christianity in order to get a job. Marx did not believe in god and thought workers were controlled by religion. He said, religion is the opiate of the people. Opium is a drug. Marx's ideas were known as Communism, a word formed for common. Communism is the control of goods and services (commodities) through a government that produces only to serve the people. It is total equality. Communism is abolition of private property, meaning that resources (minerals, coal, oil, etc.) and production (factories, plants, refineries, etc.) are owned in common by the people. Workers would share wealth in a communist society. Marx wrote that wealth should be distributed from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.Conditions in European factories were very harsh and unsafe. Marx argued that workers, rather than landlords, should control factories and farms. He urged the "workers of the world to unite" in a worldwide revolution. Marx hated the idea of Capitalism. He hated how the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. Marx hated the Industrial Revolution, he wanted Communism to be world wide, because this way not only the people of England would have what he thought were equal rights, but everyone else world wide would be able to enjoy what he thought was the best way of life. Marx saw the low class, working people or the factory workers as the good guys. This was because they were for his idea of communism and he viewed them as the "victims" of capitalism. viewed the factory owners and the people of high power as the "bad guys", because of all the power they had and because they were capitalist. Marx died in 1883, but his ideas formed the basis of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Mongolia became the second communist nation in 1921 and by the end of World War II, many governments were overthrown by communists.