HELP ME PLEASE ? ILL MEDAL Which of the following best describes Karl Marx? A. a socialist who called for the overthrow of the capitalist system B. a journalist who spent his life chronicling the poverty of Britain's industrial centers
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A. Marx, Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—which is known as Marxism—states that human societies progress through class struggle States, Marx believed, were run on behalf of the ruling class and in their interest while representing it as the common interest of all and he predicted, like previous socioeconomic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system which would be socialism. He stated that class antagonisms under capitalism between the high and low class would eventuate in the working class' conquest of political power and eventually establish a classless society
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