Marxism in the USSR

In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels boldly declared in The Communist Manifesto: “A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism.” Indeed, the stirrings of Communism were witnessed that year in the revolutions that occurred in countries from France to Germany. However, Marx’s visions of a communist revolution would not be carried out until nearly seventy years later with the Russian Revolution of 1917. Yet, Marx’s predictions of a stable economic system were soon …

…been successfully implemented in our society. In the United States, the government has instated the graduated income tax, welfare programs, and free public schooling, and has also abolished child labor- actions that Marx proposed in The Communist Manifesto. These additions have arguably saved capitalism in the US from falling to revolution, for they have placated the working-classes and discouraged social unrest, proving that certain aspects of Marxism can be used as a complement to capitalism.