Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher and social and political theorist whose work founded historical materialism, the analysis of societal structure and change through class struggle under capitalism. Marx co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in 1848 and set out his critique of political economy in his major work Das Kapital. His account of class conflict and social structure stands, alongside Durkheim and Weber, among the classical traditions from which academic sociology developed; this entity covers that sociological theorist facet of his work.
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Karl Marx (German: [ˈkaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist.
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Marx co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) with Friedrich Engels, and undertook a critique of classical political economy in his magnum opus, Das Kapital (1867-1894).
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He developed the theory of historical materialism, analysing societal structure and change, particularly class struggle under capitalism, and predicting the system's ultimate replacement by communism.
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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was a revolutionary activist, a prolific writer and Marxism 's key ideologue.
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was a revolutionary activist, a prolific writer and Marxism 's key ideologue.
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Developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx
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owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Fernand Pelloutier, Karl Marx
Gaetano Mosca (Wikipedia)
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This concept originated from his materialist idea of history as a conflict between classes (Marx)
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first shaped by his reading of Marx
Willem Bonger (Wikipedia)
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In his reception of Karl Marx, influenced by Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky
Siegfried Kracauer (Wikipedia)
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having read the works of Karl Marx
Benjamin Kidd (Wikipedia)
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Kidd was "inspired" by Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer (mostly Spencer), but he also "criticized" them.
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il fut marqué non seulement par la lecture d'Herbert Spencer et de Charles Darwin, mais aussi par celle de Charles Fourier et de Karl Marx.
Emil Lederer (Wikipedia)
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Lederer, who published the social democratic theory magazine "Die Neue Zeit", was influenced by Karl Marx and Joseph Schumpeter.
Dimitar Blagoev (Wikipedia)
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In 1882/1883, works by Ferdinand Lasalle and the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital (Russian translation) convinced him to become a socialist.
Henryk Grossman (Wikipedia)
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a treatise that revived Karl Marx's theory of economic crisis
Karl August Wittfogel (Wikipedia)
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building on Marx's sceptical view of the Asiatic Mode of Production
The Communist Manifesto (Wikipedia)
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The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party, is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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