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   Marxist philosophy

   This appears as the contradictions constituting the essence of Spirit. ... Instead, Marx saw consciousness as political.
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   Karl Marx

   In The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach argued that God is really a creation of man and that the qualities people attribute to God are really qualities of humanity. ... Karl Marx
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   Critique of capitalism

   In essence, workers must allow their labor to be exploited or face starvation. ... Karl Marx saw capitalism as a historical stage which could be followed by socialism
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   History of socialism

   Unlike the utopian socialists, who often idealised agrarian life and deplored the growth of modern industry, Marx saw the growth of capitalism and an urban proletariat as a necessary stage towards socialism. ... | | — Engels' 1891 postscript to The Civil War In France by Karl Marx |
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   Influences on Karl Marx

   He claimed that individualism was an essence the result of commodity fetishism or alienation. ... Karl Marx
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   History of communism

   Karl Marx saw primitive communism as the original, hunter-gatherer state of humankind from which it arose.
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   Permanent revolution

   In essence, it consists of the working class maintaining a militant and independent approach to politics both before, during and after the 'struggle' which will bring the 'petty-bourgeois democrats' to power . ... Since Marxism emphasises the contingency of political developments on material historical circumstances (as against 'idealism'), it is worthwhile to have some idea of how Marx saw the context in which he advocated 'permanent revolution'.
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   Productive forces

   Indeed, Marx sees the essence of what he calls "the capital relation" as being summarised by the circumstance that "capital buys labour", i.e. the power of property ownership to command human energy and labour-time, and thus of inanimate "things" to exert an autonomous power over people. ... Marx, Karl (1867 | 1967).
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   Criticisms of Marxism

   Peter Singer proposes that the way to solve this problem is to understand that Marx saw the economic base as ultimately real. ... Historian Richard Pipes describes how many Marxists at the turn of the Twentieth Century believed in the coming of the "new man" without vices; in essence a new superior species, albeit one caused by socio-economic changes, not genetics.
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    Communism

    Karl Heinrich Marx saw primitive communism as the original, hunter-gatherer state of humankind from which it arose.

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• Communism