European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will join a celebration of Karl Marx's 200th birthday on May 5 in Trier, Germany -- where Marx was born and raised -- and will give a speech at the unveiling of a statue of the Communist philosopher, The New American website reports today (April 30, 2018).
Marx and his friend Friedrich Engels wrote "The Communist Manifesto" in which they stated that Communism could serve as a utopia by ending the unfair economic relationship that prevails between the wealthy and the poor under capitalism. Everyone would be equal in a classless ideal society in which people provided the government with services according to their abilities, and were reimbursed by the government according to their needs.
In fact, Marx and Engels viewed the working class under capitalism to be comprised of fools who were being exploited bigtime economically by the owners or the wealthy. They also believed that the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer under capitalism -- a situation occurring in the U.S. today.
In "The Communist Manifesto," they wrote: "Workers of the world unite... You have nothing to lose but your chains." Perhaps Marx's greatest contribution to the working class was to make it aware that it was being exploited by management, thus motivating it to establish many labor unions to empower it to receive higher working wages and more benefits for workers.
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