Karl Marx: Inspirational source of great social struggles around the world (+seeding)

On March 14, 1883, the German philosopher, sociologist, historian, economist and politician Karl Heinrich Marx died at 64 years of age in London, England, after he developed bronchitis and pleurisy, plunged into poverty and persecution by the European bourgeoisie.

Marx was considered to be the father of scientific socialism, modern communism, Marxism and historical materialism.

It was the inspiring source of great social struggles around the world and the philosophical-political-economic basis of revolutionary experiences such as those of Russia, China and Cuba.

Marx's greatest merit in his contribution to the social sciences was to systematize the symptoms of class society: exploitation, inequality, injustice, speculation, imperialism, among others; in addition to proposing socio-economic alternatives to overcome this condition of class society and, therefore, overcome capitalism.

In this sense, he also gave a theoretical character to social and political revolutions formed from the contradictions presented between productive forces and production relations, which he called class struggle. This shook the abstract conception of justice and freedom proposed from bourgeois positions.

Commander Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution and his theoretical approach to 21st Century Socialism derives from Marxism one of its theoretical roots, which are complemented by the Bolivarian ideal (Bolívar, Rodríguez and Zamora) and the Christian ideal (Revolutionary Christ and Liberation Theology).

Mazo News Team