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   Karl Marx

   On the bloody suppression of this rebellion, Marx wrote one of his most famous pamphlets, The Civil War in France, an enthusiastic defense of the Commune. ... This work, that was published posthumously under the editorship of Karl Kautsky is often seen as the Fourth book of Capital, and constitutes one of the first comprehensive treatises on the history of economic thought.
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   Influences on Karl Marx

   It was Proudhon's book What is Property? that convinced the young Karl Marx that private property should be abolished. ... In 1861, Karl Marx wrote to his friend Ferdinand Lassalle, "Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle. ...
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   Marxism

   For example, shortly before he died in 1883, Marx wrote a letter to the French workers' leader Jules Guesde and to his own son-in-law Paul Lafargue, both of whom claimed to represent Marxist principles, in which he accused them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering" and of denying the value of reformist struggles. ... In 1847 Engels and Marx began writing a pamphlet together, based on Engels' The Principles of Communism.
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   Classical Marxism

   It is important to distinguish between "Marxism" and "what Marx believed"; for example, shortly before he died in 1883, Marx wrote a letter to the French workers' leader Jules Guesde, and to his own son-in-law Paul Lafargue, accusing them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering" and of denying the value of reformist struggles; "if that is Marxism" — paraphrasing what Marx wrote — "then I am not a Marxist"). ... In 1847 Engels and Marx began writing a pamphlet together, based on Engels' The Principles of Communism.
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   History of economic thought

   The first volume of Das Kapital was the only one Marx alone published. ... In his book The Acquisitive Society (1920) he wrote, "It is foolish to maintain property rights for which no service is performed... for payment without service is waste."
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   Class struggle

   In a letter to Friedrich Engels in 1882 Karl Marx wrote: You know very well where we found our idea of class struggle; we found it in the work of the French historians who talked about the race struggle. ... Karl Kautsky The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (1888)- contemporary book.
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   Opposition to trade unions

   Karl Marx wrote a pamphlet, Wages, Price and Profit, to counter this idea, which had been put forward in the International Workingmen's Association by a follower of Robert Owen.
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   Friedrich Engels

   The Holy Family was a book written by Marx & Engels in November 1844. ... Karl Marx
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   Evolutionary theory and the political left

   However, he had difficulty accepting the apparent support Darwin's book gave to the theories of Thomas Malthus. In 1861 Karl Marx wrote to his friend Ferdinand Lassalle, "Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle. ...
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    Marx's theory of human nature

    In the 1844 Manuscripts the young Marx wrote: ... Karl Kautsky · Eduard Bernstein

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