On this day, May 5, 1818 AD..
Birth of Dr. Karl Marx, German philosopher.
Karl Heinrich Marx (born in Trier, Germany - died in London on March 14, 1883); German philosopher, political economy thinker, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary; He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In 1843, he married the German theater critic and political activist Jenny von Westfalen. Because of his political publications, he was stripped of his citizenship and became stateless for decades while he lived in London with his wife and children. During his life, he developed his ideas in cooperation with his friend Friedrich Engels. His most famous writings are The Communist Manifesto and Capital in its three parts. His political and philosophical thought had a tremendous impact on global intellectual and economic history, and his name was used to express a widely developed school of thought, Marxism.
Dr. Marx's theories, known as Marxist interpretations; You see that human societies develop through class struggle within the capitalist mode of production, and this struggle is manifested between the ruling bourgeois classes that own the means of production on the one hand, and the working classes known as the proletariat, which are the classes that sell their labor power through the return of wages and the empowerment of the means of production. Dr. Marx used the critical approach of historical materialism to predict that capitalism would produce internal tensions in social and economic systems, which would lead to their self-destruction and replacement by a system known as the socialist mode of production. He saw that it would produce crises as a result of its partial instability, and this would lead the working class to reach a stage of class consciousness.
What drives it to seize political power and ultimately create a communist society, which is a classless society made up of free association among producers. Dr. Marx struggled to implement his principles because he believed that the working class must undertake revolutionary action to overthrow capitalism and achieve social and economic liberation.
Dr. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his works have been subjected to both praise and criticism. His work on capital paved the way for many theories about the relationship of labor to capital. Many trade unions, artists and political parties around the world were influenced by his ideas and worked to develop or adapt them to their societies. Marx is cited as one of the main architects of modern sociology.
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