The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Matthew Perry led a group of ships to Japan to encourage open trade. He told the Japanese that if they did not open trade with them, he would force them too. Although Perry was threatening them, the Japanese were amazed by the gifts and toys that had technology that they never seen before such as the motor train. The Shogun sign the agreement with Perry without concerning the emperor which made many Shi-Shi furious. The Shi-Shi started attacking the ships, the response from the west was not turning out very well. Japan was in struggle and a teacher named Yoshida Shoen was able to find a perfect solution that would industrialize Japan forever. He tought his students to not fear or hate the barbarians (Americans) but to study them in their own land and see how they live. One of Yoshida's students grew up to be

Karl Marx and Communism.

The idea of communism in the words of it's inventor (Karl Marx) is that all workers should share a common wealth in a free nation, based on your needs and not your skills. In Karl Marx's opinion, the "good guys" were the workers and the "bad guys" was the government. He wanted everyone to share equal power because history has proven that the workers have always struggled from higher up classes, such as the government. Karl Marx felt that this was needed and if the government did not obey the idea of communism, the workers of the world should unite and overthrow their government to make a communist society.
Although many countries did overthrow their government to make a communist government, it was not how Karl Marx originally wanted it to be. Karl wanted a free nation, where all shared wealth and power and none had harsh conditions in factories or in farms, but the people overthrowing the government were making a dictatorship over the country. They punished those who did not follow communism and made many people work on farms or factories, this gave a new meaning to Karl Marx's idea of communism. Communism is now thought of as a dictatorship like government that is very strict and forces the people to do things the way they want. Communism today is different then the communism that was invented by Karl Marx and goes against everything he stood for.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was the founder of Communism. He did not like how workers were treated in factories during the Industrial Revolution. His idea of Communism was that no matter what your job was, or what skill was needed for it, all would share common wealth in a free nation. Karl Marx wanted all the workers to be free of long hours of harsh work and free of their low wages, he wanted all to share wealth in a common society. The Industrial Revolution was the exact opposite of this and inspired him to create Communism. He felt that the workers should unite for a revolution to make a Communism society. This was ironic since there was already a revolution in the making (Industrial Revolution). Communism was born out of the Industrial Revolution. Many Countries were overthrown by Communism just as Karl Marx wished, but this backfired. The very people who fought for Communism, became a strict government that forced workers to work on farms and factories. Communism was given a new meaning, a dictatorship that forced people to do things the way they wanted and punished those who didn't, this was never in the intentions of Karl Marx.