Western Philosophy 19th-century philosophy
Karl Marx
Name	Karl Heinrich Marx
Birth	May 5, 1818 (Trier, Prussia)
Death	March 14, 1883 (aged 64) (London, United Kingdom)
School/tradition	Marxism
Main interests	Politics, Economics, class struggle

KARL MARX'S PHILOSOPHY CAN BE APPLIED TO TODAY'S MIDDLE CLASS, THEY ARE BEING RAPED BY THE TAX EATERS AND THE INSTITUTIONAL ELITE.  SEE IF YOU YOU CAN APPLY MARX'S THINKING TO THE MIDDLE CLASS OF TODAY.

THEY ARE WORKING MORE FOR LESS WHILE THE ELITISTS CONFISCATE THEIR HARD EARNED WAGES THROUGH TAXATION. AS THE NEW EMPLOYEE OF A BROKERAGE FIRM ASKED " WHERE ARE OUR CUSTOMERS BOATS?" THE REPLY FROM THE BOSS "CUSTOMERS DON'T HAVE BOATS, WE STOLE THEIR MONEY".   YET THE CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY ARE STILL EATING IN LUXURY AT THE CORPORATE TROUGH, INTRENCHED IN LUXURY AND COMMENDED FOR EXPORTING JOBS AND GROWNING THE CAPITALISTIC ENGINE.  THEY FEEL NO PAIN IN THIER MULTI MILLION DOLLAR CORPORATE CHAIR. EXPORTING JOBS, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH.  ALL IN THE NAME OF MEETING WALL STREET EXPECTATIONS IN TODAYS GLOBAL ECONOMIC WORLD.   ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN A CULLING OF SOME BIGWIGS, THEIR BRETHERN LIVE ON TO EXPLAIN THEIR VALUE TO YOU THE WORKER AND THEY FIGHT THE CORPORATE FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. 

THIS IS INFORMATION IS FROM WIKIPEDIA
Marx believed that this cycle of growth, collapse, and growth would be punctuated by increasingly severe crises. Moreover, he believed that the long-term consequence of this process was necessarily the enrichment and empowerment of the capitalist class and the impoverishment of the proletariat. He believed that were the proletariat to seize the means of production, they would encourage social relations that would benefit everyone equally, and a system of production less vulnerable to periodic crises. In general, Marx thought that peaceful negotiation of this problem was impracticable, and that a massive, well-organized and violent revolution would be required, because the ruling class would not give up power without violence. He theorized that to establish the socialist system, a dictatorship of the proletariat - a period where the needs of the working-class, not of capital, will be the common deciding factor - must be created on a temporary basis. As he wrote in his "Critique of the Gotha Program", "between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."^[21] While he allowed for the possibility of peaceful transition in some countries with strong democratic institutional structures (e.g. Britain, the US and the Netherlands), he suggested that in other countries with strong centralized state-oriented traditions, like France and Germany, the "lever of our revolution must be force."^[22]