Marx was criticising capitalism very harshly yes. But he was not simply rejecting it or aimed at tearing it down and simply destroying it for the sake of chaos or what ever strange ideas you have about it. Yes if you actually read the works you would see that he did leave also positive comments on capitalism. For example Marx acknowledged the fact that capitalism, particularly trough the industrialisation, increased the productive capabilities which also meant a huge progress in terms of goods and technological advancement. Marx hated feudalism and tribalism a lot more than capitalism. People often forget, he was a man of his time. The modern societies and nations have emerged trough the industrial revolution and the rapid social and technological advances. I quote >>In the communist manifesto, Karl Marx evaluates the effects of capitalist economy and society and asserts that it has both positive and negative constituents. Marx states that capitalist economy ends feudal systems, establishes the universe market, develops a more efficient commercialism, agglomerates population, and increases the technological procedure every bit good as communicating on land."<<. Marx saw capitalism simply as a natural evolution trough our history like if you want feudalism or democracy. We might very well one day see a society that works completely different to today. Who knows what kind of society people will live in 100 years, or what type of economy we will have. Just like other forms of societies had their time they eventually dissapeared, like monarchies and feudalism which have been pretty much terminated trough capitalism with new markets that feudalism could not support trough it's inefficiency. It always baffles me that people look at history and read about the vast changes that happend here over time and think, yep capitalism is the only good system there ever was and ever will be! Says who? I am NOT(!) saying we have to get a communist society in the future or something similar to it. But we simply can not know if there might not be something else no one else has yet thought about that might replace capitalism just as how capitalism made feudalism obsolete. That's what progress is.
However Marx was very critical of the capitalist society as he saw it during his time. He did not only saw the positive aspects but he also saw what it meant for the people that worked in the coal mines, steelworks and weaving mills, did you forgot about them GonZo? People which often used to work farm lands before but have been forced to move in to the cities due to the rapid changes to the society due to the industrialisation. To make it simple, Marx hypothesis was based on his observation that capitalism would create two opposing classes with the workers (Proletariat) which owned nothing on one side and the bourgeoisie as oppressors on the other. This imbalance would at some point meant the workers would rice and simply overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize the means of production. And when you look at how many nations came really close to some social revolutions because the workers had literaly no rights under what would be today seen as robber barons, can you say that a pure and unregulated capitalism was succesfull for the people? Yes we enjoy many of the technological advancements. But many during their time, did not. It is easy to forget what a capitalist society - or something close to it - can look like for many people. Child labour, 16 hour work days 6 days per week, no social security, no workers rights, no pensions, no sick pay or health care almost everything privately owned. People had work during that time and still starved to death which gave even rice to full blown riots, like the Weavers' Uprising in Germany. I quote >>In 1844, several thousand weavers smashed the newly-introduced machinery that had driven down their wages in Silesia. Thereafter, Prussian government repressed them with great brutality. This uprising attracted extensive attention among then German thinkers and writers such as Heine and Marx. <<
However Marx was very critical of the capitalist society as he saw it during his time. He did not only saw the positive aspects but he also saw what it meant for the people that worked in the coal mines, steelworks and weaving mills, did you forgot about them GonZo? People which often used to work farm lands before but have been forced to move in to the cities due to the rapid changes to the society due to the industrialisation. To make it simple, Marx hypothesis was based on his observation that capitalism would create two opposing classes with the workers (Proletariat) which owned nothing on one side and the bourgeoisie as oppressors on the other. This imbalance would at some point meant the workers would rice and simply overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize the means of production. And when you look at how many nations came really close to some social revolutions because the workers had literaly no rights under what would be today seen as robber barons, can you say that a pure and unregulated capitalism was succesfull for the people? Yes we enjoy many of the technological advancements. But many during their time, did not. It is easy to forget what a capitalist society - or something close to it - can look like for many people. Child labour, 16 hour work days 6 days per week, no social security, no workers rights, no pensions, no sick pay or health care almost everything privately owned. People had work during that time and still starved to death which gave even rice to full blown riots, like the Weavers' Uprising in Germany. I quote >>In 1844, several thousand weavers smashed the newly-introduced machinery that had driven down their wages in Silesia. Thereafter, Prussian government repressed them with great brutality. This uprising attracted extensive attention among then German thinkers and writers such as Heine and Marx. <<
