Karl Marx disliked the Industrial Revolution, because it did not promote the ideals of the average worker. Marx beleived that the people that worked within factories should be given power and that all wealth was to be equally shared amongst individuals. With the Industrial Revolution there was also the rise of capitalism. Individuals competed for wealth and most of was alloted to those who owned the factories and controlled the methods of production. My great Uncle Stanley Gluck is an avid socialist marxist supporter who believes that people should be supported by the government depending upon how many children they have and what their needs are rather than how much they work.
Marxist ideals often conflict with conservative and capitalist ideology. They beleive that people are to take responsibility for themselves and do not work with community ethics. Comfortability is all based upon self-worth and earnings.
The differences between marxist ideals and traditional communism is that Marx thought power should beequally distributed amongst people. Communist nations usually give all their power to a single dictator and the people are without freedom.
Marx did not believe in God and referred to religion as the "opiate" or drug of the people. In Orwell's 1984 all forms of religious practice was prohibited. And they were a communist state.
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