Who is Karl Max and what are his contribution to human development?

Answer 1

Do you mean Karl Marx? Marx in my opionion is great, his contribution to understanding capatalism and the plight of the worker was top rate, In sociology he plays a key role in Conflict theory, and has helped change the ideas and thoughts of people. Do a google search on him, bring up loads of information some of it can be heavy going, although I did once see a rather good kind of dummys guide (bit like the ones you get for computors) to Karl Marx, may be a good point to start.

Answer 2

Marx was a German thinker of the 19th. Century. Along with Friedrich Engels he developed the theory of communism (although Marx and Engels did not invent the concept - the idea of communism in various forms has been around for a long time). Marx and Engels biggest contribution was to offer an in-depth criticism of Capitalism. The argument is that the capitalist derives his wealth from the exploitation of the worker. Goods are sold for the cost of production but the worker is only given a fraction of the sum made. This allows the capitalist to gain more capital and thereby exert power over more of the population. Eventually most power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of the few.
Marx and Engels alternative to this was that workers seize the means of production and thereby able to distribute the fruits of labour equally in society. They foresaw that this would not be a sudden process, but the need for revolution would gradually grow among the workers of the world.

Communism as predicted by Marx and Engels has never been established in any country in the world. The so-called communism states, such as the ex-Soviet Union, China and Cuba have justified their positions by saying that they are (were) socialist states who are trying to progress to the communist state. In reality these countries are dictatorships of varying degrees of harshness.

At the risk of being wicked, the only true version of a communist state as depicted in fiction is the human society in StarTrek. There is no money, and the individual is served by society according to his or her own needs, contributing to society according to their own abilities.

Answer 3

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, historian, and economic and social theorist. Among his many contributions to human development are: He could spell his own name. He grasped the rudiments of linguistic grammar and could write a sentence which remained, consistently, in the plural. And he opened up the Continent of History to The Sciences.

(As for "Karl Max": I submit: I am at a loss.

Possibly, a very good question!)

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Answer 4

If you mean Karl Marx, he created a theory called Marxism, which is what communism derives from. It basically says that all wealth should be shared equally amoungst all the people, no matter who they are, and that everyone should work to their skills and abilities for the good of the country as a whole.

It's a nice idea, but it would never work. There is always some one too greedy, or corrupt, and you would never get a country of millions to agree. Unfortunately it would never work (Stalin and Communist Russia is a good example).

Answer 5

You seem to have a composite view of who Karl Marx was and what he stood for. My own addition is that, although in espousing true communism, he overlooked the fact that people, being people, will be corrupted by greed, jealousy and envy, thus destroying the perfect state. As George Orwell so succinctly put it in 'Animal Farm', "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others". Change animals for humans and you have the reason why philosophical beliefs are just that!
You could argue, unfortunately, that many dictators used his views to plunder their own countries (and others) and succeeded only in slaughtering hundreds of millions of people. Not, I'm sure, how he would wish to have been remembered.

Answer 6

Karl Marx wrote a book titled "Das Kapital" in which he described how the workers would take over the means of production by buying shares in the industries where they were employed and thus would ultimately own the means of production.

Karl Marx founded the Communist Party in London, along with Engels. Both were instrumental in fighting for the liberty of the working man in England, eventually helping to secure the franchise for all men over 21 in the 1860s. Prior to that you had to be a property owner in order to have a vote. Marx and Engels supported the Chartist Movement.

Karl Marx is buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London.

After his death, the Communism envisaged by Karl Marx got hijacked by some of the worst elements in society, particularly in Russia, where it culminated in the Russian Revolution of c1916.

The rest is history.

Answer 7

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Prussia – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that capitalism would be replaced by communism.

Marx was both a scholar and a political activist, often called the father of communism. Sometimes, he argued that his analysis of capitalism revealed that capitalism was destined to end because of unsolvable problems within capitalism:

Answer 8

Karl Max, Fürst von Lichnowsky, 6th Prince and 8th Count Lichnowsky (1860-1928). Succeeded his father in 1901. Imperial German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 1912-1914.

Lichnowsky became German Ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1902, replacing Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg-Hertefeld, but was forced into retirement in 1904, accused of too much independence from the Foreign Office after several conflicts with Friedrich von Holstein, senior counselor of the foreign office's political division.

According to his memoirs, Lichnowsky was brought out of retirement in 1912 when the preferred candidate for ambassador to London was thought to be too young, and two alternate candidates turned the job down.

Answer 9

It's Karl Marx, he was a german thinker from the 19th century, he wrote Das Kapital and is seen as the father of communism. See google for more details.

Answer 10

HE IS CALLED KARL MARX, NOT KARL MAX. HAVE YOU EVER HEARDOF THE MARXISTS, WELL THATS WHERE THE NAME COMES FROM. HE HAS ALOT OF DIFFERENT THEORIES, TOO MANY TO MENTION HERE. LOOK IT UP. GOOD LUCK .