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   Karl Marx

   The messages carved on Marx's tombstone are: “WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE”, the final line of The Communist Manifesto, and Engels' version of the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: ... Marx wrote extensively about this in terms of the problem of alienation.
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   Influences on Karl Marx

   Marx was influenced by Antique materialism, especially Epicurus (to whom Marx dedicated his thesis, ‘’Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus’’, 1841) for his materialism and theory of clinamen which opened up a realm of liberty. ... 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

   The sixth thesis on Feuerbach, and the determination of human nature by social relations ... In the 1844 Manuscripts the young Marx wrote:
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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"). ... Marx was influenced by Antique materialism, especially Epicurus (to whom Marx dedicated his thesis, ‘’Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus’’, 1841) for his materialism and theory of clinamen which opened up a realm of liberty.
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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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   Theses on Feuerbach

   Eleventh Thesis, original manuscript The "Theses on Feuerbach" are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845.
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   Value product

   Subsequent Marxian scholars have argued the critique of political economy should continue, with regard to the new economic concepts and theories, rather than stop at the point where the ink dried on the last sheet of paper that Marx wrote on. ... Phd Thesis, Columbia University, 1963.
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   Dialectic

   Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective. ... Marx wrote:
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   Marxian economics

   Marx wrote other treatises on economics: Critique of Political Economy, one of his early works, was mostly incorporated into Capital, especially the beginning of Volume I. Marx's notes made in preparing to write Capital were published years later under the title Grundrisse. ... Marx's Theories of Surplus value was edited by Karl Kautsky.
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    Marxist philosophy

    Having achieved his thesis on the Difference of natural philosophy between Democritus and Epicurus in 1841, the young Marx progressively broke away with the Prussian university and its teachings impregnated by German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel). ... Karl Korsch

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