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Marx's socialist concepts contributed a lot to the formation of socialist states. His ideas also led to the formation of labor unions and parties across the world.
Karl Marx on Private Property and Communism
Karl states that personal life and property rights have a connection. However, he denounces both and refers to them as bourgeois freedom. He claims that an individual that is not with the society solely works with his private interests and acts according with his own expectations. He says that freedom to own property is hollow, and it only aims to help one acquire something better. Therefore, this does not encourage freedom for all, but gives freedoms to the ruling class only who are also capitalists. He claims that capitalist have the means by which they control how the lower classes develop. The lower class hence depends on the capitalist to develop. However, this would be difficult since capitalists never value the rights of others.
Karl was against private ownership of property. He says that the liberal traditions have affected the social nature of human kind. Karl is against the idea of one person enjoying his property and disposing it as he wills at the expense of the society and other individuals. He suggests communism as the solution to the problems the society is experiences. Communism views capital to be a social power and not personal. According to Karl, communism encourages common property ownership whereby all the members of the society own the property.
This personal property of the property does not change, but only the character of the property changes. He says that there is no need for the subdivision of the society into classes. According to Karl, the burgeois society allows capitalists to control...
He states that non-communists only aim at increasing labor accumulated whereas communists accumulate labor to increase and to promote the laborer.
Karl explains the dependency of the living person on capital and has no individuality. He claims that the burgeois society limits the means of this person by encouraging individuality and independence. Communism does not mean to take any person's power of appropriating the property of the society, but only takes the power that allows one to subdue the labors of others by appropriating property in the wrong way. This ensures a society that sustains every individual.
Karl also believes that communism can help end the exploitation of one country by another just the way it puts to an end the exploitation of one individual by another. He views communism as the only way to end class antagonisms that exists. This is through the removal of all forms of exploitation in the society. Karl believed that communism was to key to societal development as a whole. He says that the society needs communism since it is the next stage of historical development. This is important in the process of human emancipation and rehabilitation. He says that communism is the necessary thing that is dynamic and a principle that will improve the future of the society. However, he claims that it is not the ultimate goal of the society, but the next form of the human society.
References
Blumenberg, W. & Scott, D.(1972). Karl Marx: An illustrated biography. London: Verso.
Marshall, J. (1994). John Locke: Resistance, religion and responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge
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