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Karl Marx
The inevitability of capitalism's destruction is prevalent in much of Marx's writing. However, its direct mention can be seen in the opening chapter of Marx's and Engels's The Communist...
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Karl Marx
Marx argued that materialism was one of the underlying forces behind historical development. One of the most important elements in Marx's thinking was his process of dialectical materialism. This...
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Karl Marx
Marx and Engels focused on the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed—that is, they maintained that the world consists of the members of the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, and the...
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Karl Marx
The main tenet of Marxism, as described by Marx and Engels themselves in their 1848 work Communist Manifesto, and in Marx's magnum opus Capital, is this: History is best understood as a series of...
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Karl Marx
For Karl Marx, everything is determined by what he calls the mode of production, or the social relationships by which goods are produced for society. This mode of thinking is sometimes called...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a very influential thinker because he had a very provocative idea at a time that was ripe for that idea to take hold. Marx wrote his most important works in the late 1840s, the 1850s,...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, historian, economist, and political scientist who was born in Prussia in 1818 and lived most of his life in London. Although he started writing for publication...
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Karl Marx
There are three main points Karl Marx describes in "The Commodity", which is Chapter One of "Das Kapital". He describes basic principles of value and exchange after defining the term commodity....
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Karl Marx
In "The Premises of the Materialist Method" from Marx's The German Ideology, he writes that "the first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals." He...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx, known as the father of modern communism, spent most of his life asking questions about social and political systems, and seeking answers to the questions related to how to have a system...
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Karl Marx
While not opposing industrialization, as to do so would have been folly, Karl Marx did view the Industrial Revolution as furthering the alienation of the working classes from the society for which...
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Karl Marx
It has been commonly understood that the theory of historical materialism proposed by Karl Marx is a psychological theory having to do with "man's drives and passions" and teaching that man's...
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Karl Marx
As you work on your essay, you might take as a starting point the idea that one of Marx's major innovations in the thinking about law was to remove it from the realm of pure philosophy or theology...
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Karl Marx
Alienation is both the central philosophical concept in Marx's work and one of his most original contributions to the history of philosophy. Marx follows Hegel in historicizing the human situation,...
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Karl Marx
Marx's quote about the relationship that people have towards their past reflects some very keen insight. In order to fully envision this understanding, expanding on the quote might be helpful: In...
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Social Sciences
Applying the writings of Karl Marx to contemporary American society is a tenuous proposition. Marx was writing during an age, and in a location, from which his perspective was of the...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the world. His ideas about economic justice helped give rise to the systems of socialism and communism. These ideas were very...
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Social Sciences
I agree with this statement in some ways, but disagree with it in others. First, I definitely agree that Marx’s failure to see that capitalism could evolve makes it much less likely that his...
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Social Sciences
Karl Marx primary influence over modern economic thought is in the area of Marxist economic theory and to a lesser extent socialism.Marxist theory or theories are in direct conflict with capitalism...
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels drafted The Communist Manifesto (1848) not as a thoughtful, considered analytical document, but as a clarion call to action. To put too much intellectual weight on...
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Karl Marx
Marx's fundamental argument resides in the realm of dialectical materialism. This thought suggests that material reality and its production is the basis of social division. For Marx, historical...
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Karl Marx
Marx's theory of history can be best described as one based on dialectical materialism. This notion of history is one where historical progression is defined by "material existence and by the...
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Karl Marx
I certainly think that Marx would say that there are definite differences between power and control in organizations that are predicated upon capitalism. For Marx, this is the essence of his...
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Adam Smith
I think that Marx would argue that greed and selfishness is intrinsic to capitalism. The presence of extreme and obscene wealth and extreme and shocking poverty represents how capitalism has...
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Karl Marx
Marx thought that the way a society was organized was determined by economic factors, i.e., division of labor and control of the means of economic production. Class conflict was a recurring fact in...
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Karl Marx
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that Marx would suggest that the presence of globalization would enhance much of his theoretical underpinnings. Marx made the argument that...
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Karl Marx
While being spectacularly wrong regarding the evolution of economic systems and the propensity for revolution in advanced capitalist systems, Karl Marx was not dumb. If he had lived through the...
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Social Sciences
In many ways, the term “social class” is something of a misnomer when we are talking about Karl Marx’s ideas. Class really has nothing to do with society and with social interactions....
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Karl Marx
Three aspects of materialism for Marx could include the following. First, Marx says that all human societies are organized around the ways that people get the thing that they need in order to...
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Karl Marx
The essence of the difference in the belief of change in Marx and Smith rests in the idea of where external intervention is viewed. For Smith, external intervention is not necessarily needed....
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Karl Marx
For Marx and Engels, their belief in the inevitable destruction of capitalism is their vision of it as a "runaway train." Their critique of industrialized capitalism is rooted in the idea that...
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Karl Marx
I think that it is important to make clear that much of modern Marxism used Marx's thoughts as a springboard and "ran with it." We can make some general points about Marxism, or the socio-...
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Karl Marx
I had to edit down the original question to focusing on one question. I invite you to submit the other one in a separate question because it is quite worthwhile. I think that the fundamental...
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Marxist Literary Criticism
Marxist theory of literature, or the literary concepts and assumptions arising from Marxist paradigm, is a social theory in the form of discourse based on the studies of a German Philosopher and...
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The Communist Manifesto
For Marx and Engels, the growth of reason in Status Quo human society has to be directly linked to dialectical materialism. The presence and seeping of dialectical materialism to all aspects of...
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Karl Marx
I had to pare down the original question. My hope is that you repost it as separate questions because there is so much in the original worthy of exploration and thought. We can presume that Karl...
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The Communist Manifesto
I think that the mere concept of "reason" in terms of its development and origin has to be examined. If one is examining the concept of reason that enabled capitalism to take a hold of the world's...
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Karl Marx
I think that the interest in this kind of conflict for the Marxist would be at what point the "middle class" decides to demand their own share of the means of production. This conflict will bring...
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Karl Marx
If Karl Marx were alive today, he would still say that the working class is exploited in industrial societies today. Marx would start by looking at truly industrial economies like the one in China....
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Karl Marx
Marx justifies the claim that the ruling classes are representative of the ruling ideas of the time with his assertion that capitalism and ownership of the means of production defines power. For...
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Karl Marx
I think that Marx's primary point about the nature of society being constructed in a materialistic mindset is highly relevant. It speaks to the idea that there are other factors driving...
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Karl Marx
For Marx, simple reproduction is an economic condition that calls for the repetition of capitalist patterns of recognition. It is a condition that Marx believes defines the essence of why...
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Karl Marx
Marx viewed history as a long process in which social classes, defined by their relationship to the means of production in society, clashed. These clashes led to conflict, which in turn led to...
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Karl Marx
Strictly speaking, Karl Marx's specific philosophy should be termed "Marxism," as both modern Communism and Socialism diverge from his ideals in several key ways. However, Marx created the concept...
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Marxist Literary Criticism
I think that 20th Century literature has been influenced by the thinking and writing of Karl Marx. Marxist thought in terms of the shifting relationships between individuals and wealth has helped...
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Karl Marx
Marx's main claim about religion relates closely to his ideas about society in general. Marx believes that the most important fact about society was the relationship between the classes that make...
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Karl Marx
For Karl Marx, fundamental concepts of social justice were rooted in economic justice. For Marx, economic inequality, and the existence of private property, resulted in social injustice. One...
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Karl Marx
For Marx, economic equality would not simply consist of what we have in a capitalist system which is (ideally) the equality of economic opportunity. Instead, there would be equality of economic...
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Karl Marx
For Karl Marx, the concept of political freedom is rooted in an essentially collectivist notion of economic freedom. Most importantly, he considered all freedom to be based on freedom from economic...
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx's alternative to capitalism is communism. This is the system that he thinks should (and eventually will) arise to replace capitalism. Marx believes that capitalism is a system that...