(1) Philosopher Karl Marx believed that a capitalist system would destroy itself in the end. (2) He predicted that one day social classes would be eliminated in a violent revolution creating a society of plenty for everyone. (3) Marx and philosopher William Friedrich Hegel shared a similar view that history was moving forward to one aim. (4) For Marx, that goal was rooted in economics, the climax of a conflict between owners and workers.
(5) Marx's beliefs came from his education in law and philosophy at universities in Bonn and Berlin. (6) Later, after moving to Paris, he met lifelong companion Friedrich Engels who helped him coauthor The Communist Manifesto. (7) In 1849, Marx visited London and uncovered enough material in the British Museum that he spent the remainder of his life researching and writing Das Kapital (Capital), a three-volume piece that studied capitalism and predicted its failure.
(8) Marx's position in his work was that the labor involved in making a product was the most important part of that product. (9) The owners of the factories don't work to create a product, but rather they buy the labor and materials needed and then sell the final product. (10) Even though the workers that made the final product were the biggest part in making it, the owners would sell the product for much more than what they paid the workers who made the product.
(11) However, communism did not work out as Marx had hoped. (12) Communist leaders proved to be corrupt because they tried to control every aspect of people's lives, and their desire for wealth and power only continued to grow. (13) In fact, communism created poverty for most instead of wealth for all.
(14) Marx predicted that factory owners would boost profits by not paying their workers enough, which would make the workers poor. (15) He believed that this gap between the rich owners and the poor workers would create a revolution. (16) Marx thought this revolution would usher in communism. (17) Under communism, he believed, government would fade away, people would lose interest in power and profit, and all people would be prosperous. (18) People would receive goods based on their needs, and they would be free to work according to their interests and abilities.
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What is the most effective way to improve the organization of this passage?
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