Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a German philosopher who believed that the Government should control the production of goods. He thought that this was the only way for all people to be considered equal. I personally believe that a free enterprise system with competition works better than Marx's ideas of communism.

 

 With a free enterprise system, the goods are produced with a higher level of quality than if they are all produced by the same group. When several groups are trying to sell to the costumer, they all try to have a better product than the others. But when the consumer only has one kind of the good available to them, there is no need for the producer to have a high level of quality. In a communistic society, there is usually only one kind of a thing to choose from, and consumers are forced to buy it. In a free enterprise system of trade, the consumer chooses which product is the best one for their needs. This is why I think that free enterprise and competition works better that communism.

 

 Also when you have competition, the producers compete to have the lowest prices, while still making a profit and having the highest level of quality possible. This requires radical thinking and change, which is sometimes painful if you are not forced to by the competition. In a communist system of trade the prices can be changed at the discretion of the government, which usually likes to keep them high, simply because it can without suffering any losses.

 

 Also, with no competition, there is no longer any need for radical new thinking and innovations. Since the people don't have a say in what they buy, the government gives them as little as possible, at the highest prices possible almost all the time. In a free enterprise system, the producers are always pushed to have the best product available. Sometimes this means having new products and innovations. Some of the greatest inventions of the world came from having something new that no one else had. This is why I think that a system of free enterprise and competition works better than a communistic system.