Did Karl Marx bring very much into the world?

Question

Or did he just bake conflict!

Answer 1

Karl Marx brought the ideals of socialism and equality into the world's political arena.
Without Karl Marx or Engels there would be no feminism,or equality for women, no well-fare state or secularism.
There would be no workers rights or unions, no NHS, due to him inspiring the early Labour movement.
Without the Soviet Communists, Hitler would have overrun all the western powers such as Britain.
Karl Marx brought to the world an alternative view of society, economics, ideals and principles which today's politics obviously lacks as in honour and integrity.

Answer 2

I don't understand your question. By 'baking conflict', a great amount is still brought into the world.

Conflict was, of course, at the heart of Marx's philosophy (known later as dialectical materialism). It was inherited from Hegel's (idealist) philosophy of history.

Marx, it is said, unified strands of German Idealism, French utopian socialism, and English empiricism. This, in itself, makes him an impressive thinker. But - in line with your question - Marx preached that 'philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world. The point is to change it' (or words to that effect). And how Marxist-Leninism (and, alas, Stalinism and Maoism) have changed the world. They gave the West its much-needed "other" for almost a century, and they have inspired many critiques of modern capitalist society. Furthermore, although it is now generally believed that the utopian ideal proclaimed by Marx is unrealistic speculation, this does not wholly discredit the ideal. It acts as a standard against which we can judge the eco-moral failings of the project of capitalist world-mastery.

Answer 3

first consider this....
inspect and understand the world confussion at that time...
his intentions were to create a better society based upon what he knew as past, present and possible future. He at least attempted in his concepts to find a positive model and way to help the masses of people in struggle and misery.

is his model that different that say: the original mormons, or any other group of oppressed peoples?

his concepts did not fail, they were manipulated from otheres. however, it did lead to an entirely new concept of government, which impacted our world dramatically in a direct or indirect way on a global scale. even now, as we speak, his impact and concepts are all around us.

I am most certain, he like all human beings was searching for the answer of peace, harmony and fairness for all humanity.

i have not studied much about him. Just his initial book.

what do you think will happen where you live if a great social, economic and government upheavel will do to the life as you know it right now?

something to ponder indeed...

he certainly did bring much into our world...was it his conflict or the one that already existed?

Answer 4

Marx argument was, that economic relationships are basic forces in history and it's around them, that the whole complex of relationships arises.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their existence that determines their consciousness.
He wanted workers of the world to unite!
He and his friends wrote, "The Communist Manifesto"
Marx, wrote the uncompleted, "Das Kapital"!

He hoped to make the world classless, but the world wasn't ready for it.
I suppose he didn't bring much into the world, except the power to make us think in a different way about the class system...

Not really answered your question have I, sorry;-)?
you made me put my thinking cap on though, thanks.

Cassandra

Answer 5

Hello =)

Although it certainly was never his intention, his thoughts were interpreted by just about everyone who ever read them in totally different ways.....umm Very much like the Bible, I dare say.

So, from the point of view of causing man to think....he did contribute something.....

On the other hand, one might say that what he brought into the world was 100 years of misery as well, and still counting. For some of those interpretations were particularly lethal.....

Namaste, and Happy New Year,

--Tom

Answer 6

An unfinished analysis of class is what i recognise best. Of course the reason his analysis 'broke off' was because he saw himself turning into the kind of person he disliked-a 'box person'.
For this reason i believe this was what he brought into the world: Half-filled boxes. (which others have filled) Well done Marx.
He coined the terms 'class conflict' and 'class consciousness' which are best understood by the 'ruling' classes and this understanding is used by the ruling classes to stop conflict and consciousness by means of manipulation. Again, well done Marx.

Answer 7

Was it Karl Marx who championed the 'worker' and slagged off the parasitical upper classes, whilst never doing a days work himself and living off of Engels money?
He should be in power today - we wouldn't know the difference! (Ask the Gibbs brothers)

Answer 8

Vicki, you lil stinker you! Ya understand more beneficial than comparing the Obombus to his dad! I recommend what would Karl Obombus say about all this! decrease than is a quote I lined from a previous Obombus mentality man or woman who loved to apply the "thousands", very such as the Obombus does as we talk... ..."Emotion for the thousands, common sense for the guy". ;Adolf Hitler(circca 1934).

Answer 9

He brought a new way of thinking about wealth creation and distribution, and capitalism, which, if put into practice properly would have benefited most people in society. He contributed to a new awareness of the abject poverty in which some people lived (and still do), and his ideas have gone some way to shape the philanthropic and anti-capitalist viewpoint which many people share today.

Answer 10

He did believe in the total commune of mankind,which was undermind.
Nothing new there.
At least he tried,like many others before him and after.