CHAPTER 11
Karl Marx
INTRODUCTION
Karl Marx is one of the most extensively admired as well as a criticized scholar of human history. He is famously known as the ‘Father of Communism’. Dead or alive, Karl Marx is a personality who haunted capitalism forever. He was born in 1818 in present-day Germany. He started his philosophical journey as a Young Hegelian, but soon he counters the idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and presented a materialistic interpretation of history, which became the foundation of what he called ‘scientific socialism’.
He was a revolutionary, a philosopher, a radical thinker, and above all a votary of the marginalized landless working class or ‘proletariat’. Theoretically materialistic, practically anarchist, and ...
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