identify and remedy the problems of capitalism through his creation of

Marxism. He felt that capitalism benefited the owners of the means of

Karl Marx describes capitalists as people with a “vampire thirst for the

living blood of labour.” As he describes capitalism his main objection to the

economic system is what was know as the “labor theory of value.” The

theory says that the value of any commodity is a function of the amount of

labor that it took to produce it. In capitalism, labor is a commodity the

value of the labor is determined by it’s cost. The cost of a worker’s labor is

the cost of sustaining him. Marx says only in an ideal world will the product

be sold for it’s just price. Capitalists attempt to find a way to receive a profit

from this product. They do so by forcing the laborer to work more hours than

are needed for his own survival. Lawhead says that Marx

making the product, whose total value, is equivalent to support himself and

because of what they do, he says they are merely helpless victims of the laws

Communism, there would be no more social or economic classes because

products whose value is taken by the capitalist. This describes how the

the Proletariat will use there political power to clean out the last remnants of

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