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Name: _________________________________

KARL MARX
Marxism is the political, economic, and social theories of Karl Marx
including the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force
in history and that there should eventually be a society in which there are no
classes

Background
Karl Marx was born in ___________ in ________________, Prussia (now
western Germany) and died on March 14, 1883 in ___________________,
Britain

Influences
David Ricardo ______________________________________________________________
Adam Smith ______________________________________________________________
Georg Hegel______________________________________________________________

Ideas
Nature of Man is to
______________________________________________________
Capital is, therefore, not a ________________________, it is a social
power (Marx and Engels 36).
The history of all hithero existing societies is the history of class
struggles (Marx & Engels 4).

Truth is __________________________________________________
The production of too many useful things results in the production
of too many useless people Karl Marx

Origin of Truth is ____________________________________________


Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form
Karl Marx

Role of Government is ______________________________________


In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in
the single sentence: Abolition of private property (Marx and Engels
35).
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