Marx responded to Hegel by claiming material changes in history create spiritual change
What is Capitalism? Revenue -Expenses = Profit
Who gets the profit? The owner
Should there be a different way of distribution

Capitalism:
Economical/material changes drive the history of humanity
Basis of society: material, economic, and social relations
Superstructure: religion,morals, art, philosophy,science
Superstructure is a reflection of the bases of society
This is a dialectical relationship between the bases and superstructure
Worker stuck between these two different extremes
Capitalism equals profit

Marx ideas about class struggles:
Conditions of production-resources available to society
Means of production- equipment , tools, machinery, & raw material
Production relations - owners and workers
Society's ruling class sets the norms for right/wrong
History is a struggle of who owns the means of production
In Capitalist society: bourgeoise vs. proletariats

Alienation :
Labor - Consciousness and labor interact with each other
In capitalism, the worker labors for someone else
Labor then becomes external to the worker - alienation
What the worker creates, the worker must then buy
Exploitation- pocketing the profits
Contradictions in capitalism: the goal is to create commodity by employing as few workers as possible .
But with more people unemployed, less people to buy the. Goods, which will cause economic crisis
Marx said that capitalism will self- destruct

Communism:
The proletariat will take over the means of production
Create a classless society ,where production is owned by all (or rather none)
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
Labor then will belong to the worker and not the capitalist

Capitalism = Alienation