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J asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 year ago

Why was Karl Marx so critical of capitalism?

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  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Because it causes a lot of misery for a lot of people, just to make a small minority insanely rich

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    He saw that workers were largely being deprived of the fruits of their labor. He wanted a classless egalitarian society where workers worked co-operatively.

  • 1 year ago

    Because when he was writing workers had no protection against exploitive owners.  

    He was well intentioned but misguided about how to correct it along with ignoring human nature.  He envisioned an egalitarian society with plenty for all and a withering away of the state.   His ideas on achieving that were worse than worthless.  He did not have evil intentions, just really bad ideas that worked opposite of what he thought he would accomplish.

  • To much diversity, individual freedom + liberty, too prosperous for all, not enough oppression/strong control

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  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Because he knew it could only lead to an escalation of income inequality and loss of power for the lower classes 

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    He was jealous of people who were successful because of it.

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