The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...

Karl Marx still is revered by modern academics as a prophet. However, given Marx‘s penchant for making false predictions, at ...

The republican tradition is an oft-overlooked strain of 19th-century politics, at odds with liberalism and many currents of ...

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Originally, the Marxist left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Karl Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power ...

In 1845, Karl Marx declared ... To do philosophy properly, Marx thought, we have to form theories that capture the concrete details of real people’s lives – to make theory fully grounded ...

Karl Marx is often understood to have dismissed ... Similarly, even working-class theory is “ideological” in a society where ...

So Karl Marx was a fan of German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, who had this theory about how ideas evolve ... As he put it, “every class struggle is a political struggle.” ...

In November 1864, Karl Marx wrote a letter congratulating ... that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class," Marx declared. He was therefore thrilled by the news that Lincoln ...

But sometimes the crank is Karl Marx ... of working-class life in 19th-century England; for philosophers, a critique of modern forms of domination. Other texts by Marx are more polemical or ...