WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

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: -How did Karl Marx develop his ideas? Marx built on the analyses of a number of earlier socialist writers – most notably Robert Owen, Charles Fourier and Henri de Saint-Simon – who had from around 1815 onwards contended that capitalism needed to be replaced by a system based on common ownership and/or management.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks, which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position.

Detailed explanation-4: -Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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