can someone describe to me Karl Marx and his most known theories?

Answer 1

Karl Marx, a 19th century German socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary. Marx, often in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, drew on G.W.F. Hegel's philosophy, the political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and theorists of 19th century French socialism, to develop a critique of society which he claimed was both scientific and revolutionary. This critique achieved its most systematic (albeit unfinished) expression in his most famous work, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, more commonly known as Das Kapital. Since its inception and up to the present day, Marxism has been situated largely outside the political mainstream, although it has played a major role in history. Today, Marxist political parties of widely different sizes survive in most countries around the world.

Marxist philosophy and Hegelianism
Marx's rich and varied politico-theoretical preoccupations were initially influenced by his contact with Hegelian philosophy and its philosophical conception of history, but latter became mixed with very practical and material questions concerning the rising workers' movement of the 19th century. Marxism's philosophical roots were thus commonly explained as derived from three sources: English political economy, French socialism, and German idealist philosophy. Although this "three sources" model is an oversimplification, it still has some measure of truth. On the other hand, Costanzo Preve (1990) has assigned four "masters" to Marx: Epicurus (to whom he dedicated his thesis, Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus, 1841) for his materialism and theory of clinamen which opened up a realm of liberty; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which come his idea of egalitarian democracy; Adam Smith, from whom came the idea that the grounds of property is labour; and finally Hegel. Although some have separated Marx's works between a "young Marx" and a "mature Marx" or also by separating it into purely philosophical works, economics works and political and historical interventions, Etienne Balibar (1991) has pointed out that Marx's works can't be divided into "economical works" (Das Kapital, 1867), "philosophical works" and "historical works" (The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, the 1871 Civil War in France which concerned the Paris Commune and acclaimed it as the first "dictatorship of the proletariat", etc.) Marx's philosophy is thus inextricably linked to his critique of political economy and to his historical interventions in the workers' movement, such as the 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program or the The Communist Manifesto, written with Engels a year before the Revolutions of 1848
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Answer 2

Marx researched capitalism and put together its processes and effects resulting in showing us that the profit system controls our minds and bodies, creates governments that legalize our Owners' theft of our lives to keep them rich and powerful. Governments in many places appear to be elected, but as in the U.S. and similar places, elected positions are purchased. The winners only have the job of convincing us government is serving us, all the while it's serving that so called negotiation between our Rich and us in favor of our Rich.
Surely you can see that if you just look around. Any further question, [e-mail].

Answer 3

Hey, I learned something new! I've heard of Karl Marx's name; nothing that he was involved in. I always assumed he was one of the Marx brothers...Groucho, Harpo and Karl.

Answer 4

Try the Wikipedia entry on Marx.

Answer 5

Innovation concept tells that society is extra helpful of from springing up new technologies, and whoever developed the technologies might desire to be rewarded for it by employing allowing them to have a monopoly for that technologies for quite a few years ( it is how patents artwork). Marx says that technologies is capital and can belong to workers particularly than inventor. meaning inventor has no longer reason to develop new technologies. and is the reason the technological lag of Soviet Union in each thing different than protection tension & area technologies.

Answer 6

geez, why not just ask if someone would write a paper for you? google it