dose any one know any thing on Karl Marx?

Question

doing a project on karl marx

Answer 1

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Along with Engels, Marx took part in the political and philosophical struggle of his times, writing the Communist Manifesto a year before the Revolutions of 1848. Marx had broke with his university environment, German Idealism and the Young Hegelians, and took part in the debates of the European workers' movement, in particular in relation with the First International founded in 1864. He published the first tome of Das Kapital in 1867, a few years before the 1871 Paris Commune. The influence of his ideas, already popular during his life, was given added impetus by the victory of the Russian Bolsheviks in the 1917 October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century. The relation of Marx's own thought to the popular "Marxist" interpretations of it during this period is a point of controversy; he himself once said that "the only thing [he] knew was that he wasn't Marxist". While Marx's ideas have declined somewhat in popularity, particularly with the decline of Marxism in Russia, they are still very influential today, both in academic circles, and in political practice, and Marxism continues to be the official ideology of some Communist states and political movements.

here is more about him @ wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

Answer 2

Karl Marx came a lot of time after the Boston Tea Party and French Revolution.

Answer 3

He wrote a book called : Das Kapital. This means in english: The kapital (the money and the production means).

You should try to read it - or at least a summary on it. He is a world wide renounced social scientest know. The russian revolution, the french revolution and the boston teaparty all happened after people started reading his book.

So many people admire his book.

An important theory he posed in his book was:

These - antithese - synthese.

This is a theory that influenced the entire western scientific thinking. Especially in mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Take your time for this project. If you take it serieusly try to get hold of a copy of his famous book DAS KAPITAL.

Answer 4

Hi Jocelyn,

A good place to start is wikipedia. Read through the article, and then visit a lot of the links sourced at the bottom.

It has a pretty good summary of his life, and criticiques of his work.

Keep in mind that a lot of what you read on the web can have some bias in it- especially something as contentious as the "Father" of modern communism. However, with an open mind, I think you'll do fine.

Answer 5

Karx Marx is the father of communism and wrote the Communist Manifesto

Answer 6

He was a German philosopher that made a very elaborated thinking about the comunism, the working class, the workers. That is in the book Das Kapital.
He never worked, lived off his friend Engels, and Lenin and others like him used his writings and thoughts to justify comunism. But what he wrote was mostly a bunch of horse manure

Answer 7

The lower you are on the food chain the more you want your government to give you for free. The higher up you go, the more you want the government to stop robbing you blind to give to the lower classes. It’s a matter of perspective. Poor people LOVE taxes because they fund government handouts to the poor and are essentially exempt from paying them. Who wouldn’t vote for the government to tax “Rich” people to fund more free handouts for them? The poor pay almost nothing in taxes yet reap most of the benefits. The “Rich” an often misunderstood term that ranges from middle class working families on up to the billionaires, pay for all the handouts. It’s often a catch 22 because they shoulder the brunt of the tax burden while receiving no assistance or help themselves. Truly wealthy people who work very hard to be where they are may be able to afford to pay high taxes, but it’s the 50K a year working family that fall into the middle. Neither “Poor” nor “Rich” enough to have the excess cash to pay for this. I know far too many hard working Men and Women who live paycheck to paycheck working 45-60 hours a week to make ends meet paying taxes and raising a family who live next door to handout junkies working next to no hours at all living off the system watching TV on a 40” plasma all day. I’m not saying all people are like that, but I feel the system is broken when the “Rich” people can’t afford to replace their broken 1990’s era 23” CTR TV, but the “Poor” person living next door on welfare has a 40” plasma.

Answer 8

He wasn't one of the Marx Brothers.

Answer 9

Please see the webpage for more details on Karl Marx.

Answer 10

the father of communism - wrote a book - i think it was the republic - he is not related to Graucho