How to view Marx

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Karl Marx is difficult to study as a historical figure because his thoughts are what cemented him into the history books rather than his actions. His views on the upper class industrial bourgeois and lower labor class proletariat sparked new forms of government in Russian and China. His strong negative view of the ruling upper class aimed to united the lower class proletariat’s in an effort to overthrow the bourgeois. He is also quite radical where he stated that communism can only be a success if all existing social conditions were conquered. Karl Marx is then better studied as a political philosopher where his views made the most impact.

Marx is difficult to be studied as a historian because his interpretation of his society was rooted in speculation of futures actions of the proletariat that would be potentially caused by the bourgeois. He does not take examples of past recorded history and tries to apply it to his time of existence.

I agree with erodriguez317 that Karl Marx’s views were not mean’t to be viewed in a hostile way like we do today. It seemed that he looked to help the majority of the population that had been suffering the most, where the majority had been the laboring class. Marxism had just been taken to an extreme degree after being a radical theory in itself.