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Why didn’t Karl Marx’s predictions come to fruition?

Karl Marx predicted that the proletariat, or working class, would overthrow the capitalist government because they had been majorly exploited by the bourgeois, or upper middle and upper class. Marx advocated communism as the ideal system of government in the Communist Manifesto, which he wrote in 1848.

Karl Marx's predictions never came to fruition because the workers of the United States discovered that they had other means of bettering their lives. Unions (e.g. Knights of Labor, National Labor Union, American Federation of Labor) obtained rights for workers by a variety of means, including strikes, arbitration, and collective bargaining. It wasn't necessary for them to gain rights by overthrowing the government the way Marx suggested. The Progressive Presidents (Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson) also helped the proletariat (the 99%) with the Trust Busting campaign and by passing health and safety laws; in short, protecting the consumer and the workers. Eventually labor laws were passed, creating minimum wage, outlawing child labor, standardizing work hours, and much more.

Another reason Marx's predictions were never actualized was that there was a large distrust of Communism in the United States. This country was built on the ideals of capitalism and many people in the US saw communism as taking away their freedom due to the power the State held in a Communist nation. Some even saw it as a way for the poor to exploit the rich. The distrust of Communism eventually led to two Red Scares, in 1919, and during the Cold War. During these periods, anyone with a suspected connection to Communism could be jailed or blacklisted, which meant they were unable to get a job. This would effectively stop all Communist ideals from taking hold in America.