what did marx predict for the future 
marx thought that the capitalistic system would inevitably self destruct competition would grow so fierce that most businesses would fold and be absorbed into unwieldy monopolies workers would reject a system that exploited them the oppressed workers would ultimately overthrow the owners to take control of the means of production ushering in a classless society of shared ownership was karl marx right not so far since the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 the most successful of the few remaining communist countries notably china and vietnam have reformed some of their most rigid practices none has been able to entirely eliminate personal property money and class systems in the way that karl marx envisioned capitalism in its various forms remains the dominant economic system but it has changed too since marx s time with some of the worst excesses addressed worker safety standards child labor laws minimum wage laws and anti poverty programs are all examples 