Does anyone have information on Marxism??

Question

Background information is welcome. I am more interested on the main goal/point of Marxism. What believe do they support?

Answer 1

Karl Marx was born in Germany in the early 1800s. He wrote many papers on the class struggles of the working class (proletariat) with the ruling class (bourgeois). He lived in an age in which the working class spent 10-15 hours a day in factories run by the ruling class. His works were mainly how the working class is "selling" their labor as their only commodity. The working class was so poor most people had almost no private property so they could only sell their labor as work. Marx also pointed out how any increase in profit for the ruling class, by means of a new technology for example, only made them more rich and did nothing for the working class. He started the Communist/Socialist movement to abolish private property and allow everything to be ruled by the working class. He wanted to end the reign of the ruling class.

Answer 2

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844


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Private Property and Communism
The antithesis between lack of property and property, so long as it is not comprehended as the antithesis of labour and capital, still remains an indifferent antithesis, not grasped in its active connection, in its internal relation, not yet grasped as a contradiction. It can find expression in this first form even without the advanced development of private property (as in ancient Rome, Turkey, etc.). It does not yet appear as having been established by private property itself. But labour, the subjective essence of private property as exclusion of property, and capital, objective labour as exclusion of labour, constitute private property as its developed state of contradiction – hence a dynamic relationship driving towards resolution.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch04.htm

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm

In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?

The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.

They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.

They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.

The Communists are distinguished from the other ....."

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. "


As to this declaration: "They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions." It becomes the question, why only 'forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.' and what is 'forcible overthrow'.

Answer 3

Check with the DNC. The whole party is modeled after the Comunist Manifesto.