proposed that all history is the history of class struggle, and predjcted the victory of the new industrial working class, the proletariat, over capitalist society. The demise of capitalism would lead to socialism and ultimately a higher form of communism where alienation would be at an end Marx’s radical political views meant that he ran into trouble with first the Prussian, then the French and then the Belgian authorities. He and his family were eventually exiled to England. Here Marx worked on his most ambitious project, capital, a detailed analysis of the development and workings of capitalist political economy At the centre of the three volumes of capital (only one of which was published before Marx’s death) lies his account of the commodity He noted a contradiction within capitalism between the market value (exchange value) of a particular product and it’s value as an item that somebody miqht actually use (use value) capitalism holds the market value of goods and people to be worth more than the people themselves.