Karl Marx

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Comment by Ralph Dumain on April 7, 2010 at 9:19am

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/index.htm

Comment by animus on April 7, 2010 at 8:05am

The Poverty of Philosophy by Marx, I would like some more info please on this theory if I may ask. Could someone provide a link to the book or expound on his work, thanks!

Comment by John Smith on February 6, 2010 at 10:42pm

Thank you Ariel for joining it!

Comment by Ariel Lamar on February 5, 2010 at 8:17pm

thanks john for creating this group.

Comment by carl on January 1, 2010 at 12:31pm

happy to be here!

Comment by John Smith on November 17, 2009 at 12:50pm

Comrade Barack Obama is a Marxist! I never knew this! I'm glad smart people like Glenn Beck can point this out:

Comment by Dave Mann on April 23, 2009 at 7:51am

The New York Times gets something right: http://tinyurl.com/c5xrj4 link to article by York U's Leo Panitch

Comment by VKVora Atheist, Rationalist on March 28, 2009 at 2:49pm

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818–March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism.

Marx earned a doctorate in 1841 with a thesis titled The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, but he had to submit his dissertation to the University of Jena as he was warned that his reputation among the faculty as a Young Hegelian radical would lead to a poor reception in Berlin.

Marx wrote The Poverty of Philosophy (1847), a response to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty and a critique of French socialist thought.

These works laid the foundation for Marx and Engels' most famous work, The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21, 1848 as the manifesto of the Communist League, a small group of European communists who had come under the influence of Marx and Engels. Later that year, Europe experienced a series of protests, rebellions, and often violent upheavals, the Revolutions of 1848. The Belgian authorities arrested Marx and expelled from Belgium.

He died a stateless person; family and friends in London buried his body in Highgate Cemetery, London, on March 17, 1883.

Comment by Ralph Dumain on March 4, 2009 at 10:08am

Note also discussions of Marxism & socialism viz. atheism & religion, esp. as theorized & practiced in the USSR, in the group "Socialist Atheists".

Comment by Ralph Dumain on March 4, 2009 at 9:33am

You are certainly welcome to introduce any line of discussion you like, no problem. It might be more convenient if you do this in the "discussions" session than begin a discussion on the comment wall. As we proceed through the various Marxist treatments of religion, I hope to show that many of them take too benign a view of Christianity.

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