Discuss in brief the socialist ideology of Karl Marx.

 Discuss in brief the socialist ideology of Karl Marx.

Ans.

(i) Marx argued that industrial society was capitalist and the conditions of workers could not improve as long as the profit was accumulated by private capitalists.

(ii) Workers had to overthrow capitalism and the rule of private property.

(iii) Marx believed that to free themselves from capitalist exploitation, workers had to construct a radically socialist society where all property was socially controlled. This society would be a communist society which will be the natural society of the future. Thus, Marx associated with the influential philosopher Friedrich developed and built on the influential theories of socialism.

(iv) The Russian socialist revolutionaries were highly influenced by his ideology.