Communism

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of the thoughts on capitalism by Karl Marx, Edouard Bernstein, Vladimir Lenin, and the Marshall Plan. The paper posits that Marx and Lenin's arguments for socialism stands in opposition to the ideologies advocated by Bernstein and the Marshall Plan, wherein socialist communism is perceived and, as history proves, can be detrimental to the welfare of society in general. In a larger context, the comparative analysis of the works of Marx, Lenin, Bernstein, and the Marshall Plan reflect the politics involved in implementing the economic system of capitalism as evident in each political philosopher's analysis of capitalism and socialism as new modes of politico-economic societies.

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"Karl Marx is an important point of reference in discussing the detrimental effects of capitalism on human societies. With Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx conceived the "Communist Manifesto" a political treatise that questioned the benefits of capitalism on the social order of the modern society in the nineteenth century. Marx argues against the bourgeoisie, the elite and wealthy class who owns and controls all means of production (such as machineries and land) as industrialism emerged in the century. The bourgeois class, according to Marx, have evolved from being landowners to factory-owners, a class that "has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones." From this statement, he then goes on to enumerate how, with the dominance of the elite class, the proletariat or working class is continually oppressed."

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