Das Kapital By Karl Marx 1818

– 1883) Essay, Research Paper Throughout the last few centuries, according to Marx, it has been the common worker’s fate to suffer the “maximum of working time and the minimum of wages” in order to supply Capitalists with profits. “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, moral degradation, at the opposite pole.” This must and shall be ended. Granted, says Marx, the Capitalist is in tight control. But the pendulum of power has swung many times in the past, and he promises that it will again shift. The Proletariat, under the banner of Communism, will ultimately be victorious. Revolution is the destined scenario – and the ultimate historical “synthesis” will be a perfectly just and egalitarian society, where everyone works , “according to his ability” and receives “according to his needs”; where the state itself finally “withers away.”