Karl Marx (1818-1883)
The founder of the theory of communism, the creator of the Marxism theory
How does the world work? This has always been the goal of human exploration. From ancient Greece to ancient China, many scientists and philosophers are trying to find the trend and motivation of human history.
Mankind has thus explored for centuries, and the rumble of the Watt steam engine sounded the horn of the first industrial revolution. The invention and large-scale use of the steam engine and the internal combustion engine greatly promoted social productivity, and the ranks of the bourgeoisie continued to grow in the process of increasing productivity.
And the rapid economic growth forced the bourgeoisie to put forward their own political demands. They hoped to restrain the power of the government and allow the expansion of capital.
But the government at that time was not willing to just delegate power. Instead, they ruthlessly strangled the bourgeoisie. So the bourgeoisie launched the concept of "democracy, freedom, equality, and human rights" to attract the people to join the torrent of the bourgeois revolution.
From the British Bourgeois Revolution to the French Revolution to the American Revolutionary War. In order to fight for autonomy, the bourgeoisie has launched wars again and again, and finally destroyed the shackles of feudal forces, and established a bourgeois and capitalist ruling model in the major industrial countries of the world.
However, just as capitalism was booming, one person predicted its demise early on. He is Karl Marx, the founder of communist theory and Marxist theory.
Karl Marx studied philosophy under the tutelage of the famous philosopher Hegel in his early years. Later, under his continuous exploration, he creatively invented dialectical materialism, a powerful analytical tool. Of course, many bourgeoisie viciously attacked Marxist theory, saying what this is "Sophistry", however, these vicious attacks cannot in any way obliterate the great brilliance of Marxist theory.
Marx clearly pointed out the defects and drawbacks of the capitalist system in "Das Kapital", and creatively used dialectical materialism to reveal the greed and vicious nature of capitalism. It also revealed the objective law that the capitalist system will inevitably perish and the communist system will inevitably triumph. It has also become an effective ideological weapon for the struggle of the proletariat all over the world.
Although the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 dealt a heavy blow to the international communist movement, it also declared the complete bankruptcy and failure of Stalin and other Marxist revisionists. The collapse of the Soviet Union can only prove the complete failure of pseudo-Marxism, not the bankruptcy of communist theory. (Although the bourgeois media attributed the disintegration of the Soviet Union to the bankruptcy of Marxist theory out of the need for ideological propaganda, this is completely shameless disinformation and vicious smearing.)
Not only that, but Marxist theory makes an excellent assertion that "the economic base determines the superstructure", which explains many historical events. Guided by the economy as a thread of clues, the history of the entire world has a clear thread, through which we not only gain insight into the past, but also foresee the future.
The entire pre-modern history of mankind is the history in which the power of capitalism has grown and finally established, while the modern history of mankind is the history of the further expansion of the power of capitalism to the world.
And this is the globalization of capitalism.
Then, following this thread, if we continue to expand further, it is not difficult for us to discover the future direction of human history, that is, the final establishment of capitalist globalization, capitalist political globalization, and the final establishment of the world government.
That is the New World Order.
The Sino-U.S. war, the U.S.-Russian conflict, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict are just examples of geopolitical conflicts manifested by capitalist globalization.
As long as we grasp the nature of the economic conflict of interest behind these conflicts, then we can penetrate these superficial phenomena to the inner essence.
In modern society, as the conflict between China and the United States intensifies, the international political landscape will undergo profound changes, but the only constant is the rapid expansion of capitalist globalization and further political integration.
And these are the precious treasures that Marx brought us.
