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Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
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What motivated Karl Marx, on a personal level? [closed]
Why did Karl Marx care so much about there being inequality in society? Did he have personal experiences that aroused his compassion for the poor? Was he influenced by preexisting left-leaning ...
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Under Marx's Labour Theory of Value, does the amount of utility in use-value affect the value?
Under Marx's LTV, the existence of value relies on use-value, as the commodity which has the value isn't a commodity without the use-value (tangible features of the commodity which give it utility). ...
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Did Marx have a particular way of thinking of 'power'?
Did Marx have a particular way of thinking of 'power', be that communist power, proletarian power, or bouregois power, in particular before the international revolution? The communist manifesto begins ...
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What does Marx say about the humanity of the ultra wealthy?
What does Marx say about the humanity of the ultra wealthy? I recall from a lecture handout that he says they are alienated, not from labour, but each other. How does this reflect on the species being,...
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Would Karl Marx have been for or against workers having the choice to work from home?
I have been wondering lately if Karl Marx would have been for or against workers having the choice to work from home.
I only have a general knowledge of who Karl Marx was and about his overall ...
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Is every abstraction capital in the abstract?
I'm unsure how Marx uses 'abstraction' and 'concrete', beyond the fact that exchange value is an abstraction from concrete use value. Is every abstraction from the capitalist mode of production - i.e. ...
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What did Hegel meant when he said that the universal continually engenders itself while maintaining its identity throughout the process?
The patriotic sentiment acquires its specifically determined content from the various members of the organism of the state. This organism is the development of the Idea to its differences and their ...
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Is human nature a problem for Marxists?
Is human nature a problem for Marxists?
So I am very broadly speaking familiar with the idea that before the scientific phase of Marx's work he was more humanist, argued that human nature was being ...
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How essential is the war against nature for Maoism?
Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven
and humans' [and Marx's theory of “metabolic rift” in capitalism] was
abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'People Will ...
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What was the Bakunin/Marx argument and split about?
In 1868, Bakunin joined the International Workingmen's Association,
leading the anarchist faction to rapidly grow in influence. The 1872
Hague Congress was dominated by a struggle between Bakunin and ...
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If history was not the history of class struggle, before Marx, was Marx wrong?
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class
struggles.
Can this be the case only after The Communist Manifesto?
Could - in principle - Marx have changed "history" - ...
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Why does Karl Marx think a new social form will derive from the inherent paradoxes of capitalism? [closed]
My professor said according to Marx, what capitalists purchase is not labor goods, but the products of labor.
To me, the result is not the market economy of "distribution according to labor",...
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Is there any historical evidence for Marx being a Satanist? [closed]
I recently read a controversial book by Richard Wurmbrand called "Was Karl Marx a Satanist?", and I found it very thought provoking.
There are many historical facts that indicate that Marx ...
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What do Marx and Marxists say about the role of bureaucracy in socialism?
By bureaucracy, I mean that important state decisions are made by officials elected at best by their own party. Does Marx approve of this? Do any Marxists not approve of it?
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On Marx's theory of human nature
Does anyone have resources on Marx's theory of human nature (or 'species-essence' as he refers to it). I understand that he refers to human nature as the totality of social relations. But where does ...
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