WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who came up with communism?
A
Adam Smith
B
John Locke
C
Thomas Hobbes
D
Karl Marx
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1840s, German philosopher and sociologist Karl Marx, who was living in England after fleeing the authorities in Prussia, where he was considered a political threat, began publishing books in which he outlined his theories for a variety of communism now known as Marxism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marx envisioned a communist system in which high levels of industrial production would ensure a good standard of living for the entire population. His theory did not account for the issues of scarcity of resources and overpopulation; indeed they were not relevant to his epoch.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who was Karl Marx? Karl Marx was a German philosopher during the 19th century. He worked primarily in the realm of political philosophy and was a famous advocate for communism. He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital, which together formed the basis of Marxism.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1848, Marx and fellow German thinker Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto, ‘’ which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system.

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