Karl Marx

~ How does the expanding world market for goods affect national identity?

In the late 1800’s a man named Karl Marx had an idea which he called communism. Communism was a type of government that he thought all countries should live by. Many countries after reading the idea of Karl Marx thought the idea of communism was the greatest type of government ever created. During the 1900’s many countries turn to communism, by this it started many wars between many countries and even world wars. What people do not realize is that reading Karl Marx’s study on communism, it looks like the greatest system a country could turn too. If gives a government many ways to rise back up by making everything in the country equal. Many people in the U.S believe in the term the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and the middle class seem to disappear. And this is where communism can step in. By turning to communism it makes everything equal. There are no rich or poor, and everything is spread out even throughout the country. Marx’s also believe this would expand the national market between all the countries. When Marx’s first came out with his theory, many countries did not trade between each other. But in today’s world there is world trade market all over the world. Karl Marx theory on expanding the trade market is basically the same as how he thinks communism would run in the countries. With everything being equal, countries and people could trade between each other to products they need. For example, if I had a car and needed a house and someone had a house and needed a car. We could trade each other to help are needs. Now, in the national trade market it works like this but with bigger products in different ways.