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   Karl Marx

   Marx wrote extensively about this in terms of the problem of alienation. ... As he wrote in his "Critique of the Gotha Program", "between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.
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   Influences on Karl Marx

   Marx, however, disagreed with Proudhon's anarchism and later published vicious criticisms of Proudhon. ... 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. ... Karl Marx
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   Max Stirner

   Later, Marx and Engels wrote a major criticism of Stirner's work. ... ↑ I. Berlin, Karl Marx (New York, 1963), 143.
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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. ... Social criticism
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   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

   Marx, however, disagreed with Proudhon's anarchism and later published vicious criticisms of Proudhon. Marx wrote The Poverty of Philosophy as a refutation of Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty.
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   On the Jewish Question

   Then, in 1845, Friedrich Engels and Marx published a polemic critique of the Young Hegelians titled The Holy Family. ... Books by Karl Marx
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   Evolutionary theory and the political left

   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. ... ... The theories of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have been subjected to various leftist and feminist criticism.
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   Marx's theory of human nature

   In the 1844 Manuscripts the young Marx wrote: ... John Plamenatz, Karl Marx's Philosophy of Man, (1975).
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    Classical Marxism

    Karl Marx ... 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."

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• Marx's theory of human nature,
• Classical Marxism