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'''Capitalist guilt''' as conceived by [[Karl Marx]] is the notion that all profit is evil since it exploits workers, so Capitalists who reap profit from workers' labor are guilty of theft (see [[Labor theory of value]]). Marx used this notion as a key point in his argument that [[Capitalism]] was not merely flawed, but rotten at the core, and therefore needed not reform but complete overthrow. He reasoned hat society's economic relations would be much more fair under a "[[dictatorship of the proleteriat]]", although experiments on a grand scale as in the [[USSR]] showed that the gap between rich and poor actually increases in [[Communist]] countries.

'''Capitalist guilt''' as conceived by [[Karl Marx]] is the notion that all profit is evil since it exploits workers, so Capitalists who reap profit from workers' labor are guilty of theft (see [[Labor theory of value]]). Marx used this notion as a key point in his argument that [[Capitalism]] was not merely flawed, but rotten at the core, and therefore needed not reform but complete overthrow. He reasoned hat society's economic relations would be much more fair under a "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]", although experiments on a grand scale as in the [[USSR]] showed that the gap between rich and poor actually increases in [[Communist]] countries.

* Hal McKenzie wrote: "In Marx's day, the early Industrial Revolution was creating tremendous social dislocation and a great deal of suffering. Writers like Charles Dickens and Upton Sinclair wrote eloquently of the shocking conditions in which workers lived and worked. For Marx, it wasn't enough to simply push for reform. He concluded that only the total eradication of the system and its replacement by communism would do

* Hal McKenzie wrote: "In Marx's day, the early Industrial Revolution was creating tremendous social dislocation and a great deal of suffering. Writers like Charles Dickens and Upton Sinclair wrote eloquently of the shocking conditions in which workers lived and worked. For Marx, it wasn't enough to simply push for reform. He concluded that only the total eradication of the system and its replacement by communism would do