"The Argument for Communism"

In this reading, Karl Marx argues that capitalism will eventually fail and we will naturally evolve into a communist society. He argues for this by citing some of the various evils of capitalism and their effects on the proletariat. Marx states that under capitalism the proletariat is exploited by the bourgeoisie and forced to live in poverty. According to Marx the natural conditions, which arise under capitalism, are going to force several things to happen …

…way that communism would and should come into existence. For our society to accept capitalism in the end would go against the naturally tendency that species have to thrive and survive. Essentially for our species to adopt capitalism as its end state of government would be morally wrong because it would go against our innate instincts for our species to evolve by improving upon itself (but that is another ethics argument stemming from natural law).