
Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: Rasekhoon.net
Source: Rasekhoon.net
In the mid-nineteenth century, in the world of different ideas of "socialism" a new character named "Karl Marx" emerged. He was a German Jew, who was born in 1818 in Tros, and later became a student of law, history and philosophy. Marx was fascinated about the social issues since he was young and therefore attempted to publish a newspaper. In his articles he talked about deprived people and hence the German authorities banned his newspaper and issued his detention order. Marx moved to Paris, where he was in contact with new people and new books on the situation of workers in Europe and socialism and he became a fan of socialist ideas. Marx met a German called "Frederick Engels" in France. Angus was not satisfied of the social situation and this led them to be close and decided to think for reforming issues of workers and published books together.
French government that had Louis Philippe kingdom at the time got aware of covert activities of Marx and then he was expelled from France. Marx moved to London, where he started studying books of the famous library called "British Museum".
Marx pursued and completed his theories there and wrote texts and articles about them. In 1848 most European cities saw workers' revolutions. These events had a great impact on the ideas of Marx and in the same year he and Engels released a manifesto together. The Manifesto, which was later the Communist agenda, invited the workers to unity. Following the publication of the Manifesto and the invitation, Marx did tireless and persistent campaign.
He wrote articles in newspapers and published pamphlets and journals and sought to make workers' organizations close and united together.
In 1864, the first meeting of the International Workers Association, was held in London which is usually interpreted as the first "International". Several groups participated in the forum who often called themselves socialist. But their interpretation of socialism was vague and insufficient. Italian old leader also participated in this Mazzini forum, but Marx was able to take leadership.
He used the opportunity to advertise ideas that would soon be published in "capital" book. In the next annual congress in Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels and the "Basel" he succeeded to consolidate his position. He announced that he is not willing for presence of Mazzini fans in the forum. He also denounced the practice of some German socialists. For this group of socialists were willing to cooperate with Bismarck, while Marx believed that the Socialists' duty is to control the government" not to cooperate with it. Marx strongly differed from "Bakunin", the Russian Socialist. Bakunin was a Russian experienced socialist that essentially believed all the suffering and misery of society are because of the state and government.
We do not want to review the works and ideas of Marx to refuse all his thoughts because of ignorance and simple heart, or to accept all his thoughts such as his supporters, but what cannot be doubted today is the issue that Marxism has become an idol that every year thousands of people become victim for it and it is the cause of disasters and major crises in human society.
Today, a group of people know Marxism as "atheist religion". Many books have been written about the ideas of Marx and explanation of them. In short, Marx's idea is that human society witnessed the class struggle in every historical period. Always a group has been at the head and other groups have been in the bottom and their interests have always been against each other. Marxism says that history is arena of changing and tolerance. As a result, the development of trade and industry, and power of agriculture land owners will gradually be in hands of the new class of merchants and factory owners. In the new industrial society known as capitalist society, financiers are powerful because they are owners of the means of production (factories), distribution (lines, stores, etc.) and conversion (banks). Marx calls the new class that is capitalism upper class as "bourgeois" and believes that they got to power due to bourgeois revolution.
Capitalism, in turn, creates a new underprivileged class. The deprived class is proletariat of workers in factories. Class struggle continues, but in a new form. Minority means the bourgeoisie and the proletariat means majority that take all of productions by paying a small component of the total value and puts the surplus value into his pocket.
Marx believed that with the development of capitalism, greed of the bourgeoisie makes more brutal exploitation of workers. Rich gets richer and poor gets poorer, but the proletariat does not always tolerate injustice and cruelty and there will be a day that they do not obey the masters and requests to receive a fair share of manufactured goods. Of course not bourgeoisie will not readily give up their interests and will show resistance against the demands of the proletariat. But proletariat will defeat the capitalism revolution and at this stage in the history capitalism will be replaced by another stage, "socialism".
Marx also refers to "classless society" in his opinion and he believes that socialism will soon lead to utopia or "communism". When there is no shortage of food and product it will not be needed that people compete with each other to get their share, and in other words, none of them would feel being unequal to compete against each other, in other words, none of them would feel inequality. In such a society there will be no class struggle. When this happens, there is no need for the government to regulate social relations and thus governmental organizations will lose their importance. In the classless society that is based on a simple principle of economics, people will naturally work together. In this society, everyone according to their ability and according to his needs freely does the best thing that will handle it comes for the community and everyone will take just what he needs from common share, no more. Marx was more insightful about the past and present than the future, because he does not describe the details of the formation of a communist society, and even he does not say exactly how to achieve it. This is why we see that his followers interpret these points in varied ways.
Today Marx is praise as the founder of "scientific communism" and his fans use the most excellent word generously about him, but from our point of view, Marx once again invited the man, who went to tear provisions of bondage and servitude to the fake gods and wanted to throw away the most superstitions, to praise God, a fake God and that God was an idol called "working class". Marx asked the man to bow for "working class" and worship this false god and unfortunately, many people accepted the invitation and began to worship the new idol.
Worshiping the false new god led to large disasters for humanity. Rulers like Stalin were trained in this school who are unique in life and drinking blood and cruel heart in human history; Marx and Engels' ideas on the family and marriage fell apart the basis and foundation of the family and many other social tragedies that we will refer to while examining the October 1917 revolution in the Soviet Union and other communist rules, but here it is necessary to say the point that Marxism was the result of terrible and ruthless looting of capitalists, who exploited others and deprived a bulk of the population from human life. Literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe is full of describing miserable life of workers and farmers in Europe and sufferings in Russia. Wealthy people and nobles shamelessly exploited disadvantaged people and prepared a comfortable and devoid of any shortages for their own. There is no sign of human affection in hearts of the nobles. They knew poverty and misery of the poor as their inevitable and immutable life and knew immersing in wealth and comfort as love of God. Nineteenth century in Europe witnessed an explosion of deprived people, who were deprived of human life for many years. In France, Austria, Prussia, and Balkans riots broke out. Rulers' attempts for putting out the flames of anger of deprived people were in vain. Among those who spoke about new ideas in relation to the fate of the dispossessed and predicted new life two groups of followers of Marx and Bakunin were more extremist than others. They called other groups illusionary Socialists. Bakunin was opposed with the presence of government and he was eliminated as anarchist but Marx found many followers and Marxist literature developed well, unaware that this new literature will cause tragedy for mankind.
Marx raised new ideas in the fields of history, philosophy and science, economics, and family. Some of these theories were true and some were false. But his followers knew all his ideas true in various fields and they rejected all comments of others on society, family, philosophy and history with prejudice and narcissism. Devotees of Marx and Engels knew man's way out of problems and difficulties only in the philosophy of Marxism. Marxists knew whoever that does not accept Marx's ideas as blind zealous with dogmatic beliefs or "dogmatism". But true scientists proved that Marxism philosophy is a "masked dogmatism."
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