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Marx

[ mahrks; German mahrks ]

noun

  1. Karl (Hein·rich) [kahrl , hahyn, -rik, kah, r, l , hahyn, -, r, i, kh], 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.


Marx

/ mɑːks /

noun

  1. MarxKarl18181883MGermanPOLITICS: communistPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Karl (karl). 1818–83, German founder of modern communism, in England from 1849. With Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). He developed his theories of the class struggle and the economics of capitalism in Das Kapital (1867; 1885; 1895). He was one of the founders of the International Workingmen's Association (First International) (1864)


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Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

It was the end of history, all right—just not the one Marx and his mid-century champions had expected.

A choice Johnson says he made channeling a Harpo Marx type character, and not a “mysterious Oriental.”

He had tried to make it a political, revolutionary society; and when he found himself defeated by Marx' opposition, he retired.

While with him moral and spiritual phenomena are the fundamental facts, Marx builds his system on material phenomena.

Marx deduced from his economic studies a confident and detailed prophecy of economic development.

Fourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.

This is the discovery of Karl Marx which is known as the scientific or materialistic interpretation of history.

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