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Karl Marx, a German philosopher, was considered the father of communism. His book, //Communist Manifesto,// which was published in 1848, called for a revolution to end all abuses of capitalism. Marx believed that proletariats had always been taken advantage of and predicted that workers would lead a revolution later on to overthrow the capitalists. History had always been a struggle between the rich and the poor. Capitalists took advantage of workers by not paying them the full value of their labor, and Marx brought a revolutionary passion to the class struggle. He wanted to unite all the workers of the world by arranging different socialist parties. As a result of his intellectual ideas, socialist parties became extremely powerful across Europe later on and the European cultures began to shift. McKay, John P. __History of Western society__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.