Ideologies / Classical Marxist / Karl Marx
§ The minds · 1818–1883 · Germany · Philosopher & economist
Karl Marx
Workers of the world, unite
The critique of capital itself.
Economic−98
SocialistMarket
Governance−48
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The philosopher whose critique of capitalism and vision of a classless society became the most influential body of political thought of the modern age — emancipatory at root, before later states claimed his name.
social
Radical emancipatory modernist — human freedom as the goal.
economic
Common ownership of the means of production; the end of wage labour.
governance
Envisioned the eventual 'withering away' of the state into free association.
Notable for
- 'Das Kapital'
- 'The Communist Manifesto'
- Founded historical materialism
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