Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a Jewish family in the P

During his student days at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, Marx studied history and philosophy and was strongly influenced by the works of Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel. Hegel was the authority on Prussian philosophy, but Marx’s ideas about questioning the current political and social issues led him to reject Hegelian thought. He was not a common person in his times by any means. To the dismay of his Father, he studied philosophy with greater interest than law. The death of his Father gave Marx the freedom to pursue his visions of a classless society. His liberal political views made him consider journalism as a career and in 1842 he became an editor of the Colonge newspaper Rheinische Zeitung (Wheen 95). Articles that he wrote criticizing political and social conditions involved him in controversy with the authorities. In 1843 he was compelled to resign and the paper was soon forced to discontinue publication. Marx then went to Paris, where he and Friedrich Engels collaborated to produce the Communist Manifesto.

The second section Marx emphasizes the need to abolish private property, a fundamental change in material existence that will hinder the bourgeois culture. As seen throught Western civilization, power rested in the hands of those who owned property. In the hands of the proletariat, all capital would be utilized for the good of the people. He stated that after a revolution, economic production will be in the hands of the proletariat, organized as the ruling class. As a result of ownership in common, class distinctions will disappear. The third section criticizes alternative socialist visions of the time, Marx attempts to distinguish his views from previous socialist views. He questions feudal socialism and its reliance on the Church (Marx 78). The final section compares Communist tactics to those of other opposition forces in Europe, ends in a call for unity: "Workers of All Countries, Unite!" (Marx 91) Marx believed that the rise of a classless society would lead to progress in science, technology, industry, and greater wealth for all(Speilvogel 256). Marx predicted that the gap between the ruling and subordinate classes would increase as competition resulting fr

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