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    Karl Marx was a German philosopher who developed the socio-economic theory of Marxism. He was influenced by Enlightenment thinkers and studied philosophy and law. Marx critiqued Hegelian philosophy and promoted a materialist view of the world. Marx collaborated with Friedrich Engels to write works critiquing capitalism, such as The Communist Manifesto. Marxism analyzes class relations and social conflicts using a materialist interpretation of history, viewing social transformation as a dialectical process driven by class struggles.

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    Karl Marx was a German philosopher who developed the socio-economic theory of Marxism. He was influenced by Enlightenment thinkers and studied philosophy and law. Marx critiqued Hegelian philosophy and promoted a materialist view of the world. Marx collaborated with Friedrich Engels to write works critiquing capitalism, such as The Communist Manifesto. Marxism analyzes class relations and social conflicts using a materialist interpretation of history, viewing social transformation as a dialectical process driven by class struggles.

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    Karl Marx was a German philosopher who developed the socio-economic theory of Marxism. He was influenced by Enlightenment thinkers and studied philosophy and law. Marx critiqued Hegelian philosophy and promoted a materialist view of the world. Marx collaborated with Friedrich Engels to write works critiquing capitalism, such as The Communist Manifesto. Marxism analyzes class relations and social conflicts using a materialist interpretation of history, viewing social transformation as a dialectical process driven by class struggles.

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    MARXISM

    KARL MARX
     Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, in what
    was then Prussia, to a lawyer and political
    activist. Educated at a liberal high school in
    Trier, Marx was influenced at a young age by
    Enlightenment thinkers and German
    philosophers. He studied at the University of
    Bonn and the University of Berlin, studying both
    philosophy and law. As he studied, Marx
    became increasingly enamored with the
    idealistic philosophy of the German George
    Hegel, who believed, essentially, that all
    thought could be defined through real, rational
    categories - though Marx would later tear down
    this philosophy in his later writings
     Marx began contributing to the radical
    magazine, Rheinische Zeitung, and he became its editor in
    1842. Marx used the magazine to write and criticize the
    existing order on a wide range of social and economic
    issues, and Prussian authorities soon censored the
    publication.

     Marx moved to Paris in 1843, where he met his most


    important collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Together the two
    wrote and published widely in Paris and later in London,
    critiquing Hegelian philosophy and instead promoting
    a materialist view of the world (which we will look at more
    closely in a moment). In 1847, the two wrote perhaps their
    most famous work, The Communist Manifesto.
    Frederick Engels
     Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was
    a German philosopher, communist, social scientist, 
    journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of
    large textile factories in Salford, England and in Barmen,
    Prussia (what is now in Wuppertal, Germany).
     Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations
    and social conflict using a 
    materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical
     view of social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th-century
    German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
     Marxism uses a methodology, now known as historical materialism, to
    analyze and critique the development of class society and especially of 
    capitalism as well as the role of class struggles in systemic economic,
    social, and political change. According to Marxist theory, in capitalist
    societies, class conflict arises due to contradictions between the material
    interests of the oppressed and exploited proletariat—a class of wage
    labourers employed to produce goods and services—and the bourgeoisie—
    the ruling class that owns the means of production and extracts its wealth
    through appropriation of the surplus product produced by the proletariat in
    the form of profit.

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