What is Karl Marx most closely associated with?
Karl Marx is generally associated with his philosophy of Marxism, a precursor of communism. Marx essentially believe that history was made up of cycles of class warfare between the proletariat (the lower, working class) and the bourgeoisie (the middle class). He felt that one day the proletariat would rise up in a revolution and overthrow the bourgeoisie, and that they would create a totalitarian government that essentially would own all business, where people would contribute what they could and receive what they need. Eventually, he believed, the government would fade away as people became used to this lifestyle, and it would end in a Utopian world of equality and common property.
