Marx
Dialectical materialism's architect
Marx is a German surname, most famously associated with Karl Marx, the 19th-century philosopher and economist whose analysis of capitalism and class struggle became the foundation of Marxism and communist political movements.
The name also belongs to Groucho Marx and his brothers, American comedians known for anarchic wit.
Marx predicted capitalism would collapse under its own contradictions.
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
- lumpenproletariatDegraded non-working poor
working class · ruling class · peasantry · class warfare · oppression · emancipation · solidarity · exploitation
State of being isolated
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- praxisCustomary action or application
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- antithesisDirect opposite; contrasting juxtaposition
synthesis · critique · Hegelian · materialism · contradiction · totality · false consciousness · superstructure
1848 anticapitalist political pamphlet
- classless societySystem without social strata
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- socialismCommunal economic control
- public ownershipState-held property or enterprise
redistribution · revolution · dictatorship of the proletariat · egalitarianism · common ownership · internationalism
German socialist theorist
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- socialist movementsCampaigns for communal economics
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
critical theory · New Left · Gramsci · Luxemburg · Trotsky · revolutionary · influential · seminal
Foundational socialist economic critique
- surplus valueProduction minus wages paid
- commodity fetishismObjects veil production relations
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
exploitation · division of labor · reproduction · valorization
proletariat
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
lumpenproletariat · working class · ruling class · peasantry · class warfare · oppression · emancipation · solidarity · exploitation · social relations
alienation
State of being isolated
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- praxisCustomary action or application
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
antithesis · synthesis · critique · Hegelian · materialism · contradiction · totality · false consciousness · superstructure · determinism
Communist Manifesto
1848 anticapitalist political pamphlet
- classless societySystem without social strata
- collectivismGroup primacy doctrine
- socialismCommunal economic control
public ownership · redistribution · revolution · dictatorship of the proletariat · egalitarianism · common ownership · internationalism
Engels
German socialist theorist
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- socialist movementsCampaigns for communal economics
labor movement · critical theory · New Left · Gramsci · Luxemburg · Trotsky · revolutionary · influential · seminal · transformative
Das Kapital
Foundational socialist economic critique
- surplus valueProduction minus wages paid
- commodity fetishismObjects veil production relations
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
wage labor · exploitation · division of labor · reproduction · valorization
Karl
Germanic name for males
exile · journalist · Brussels · Paris · British Museum · poverty · stateless
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon, Lincoln
- German FiguresOtto von Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Goethe
- communismLeninism, Lenin, proletariat, Engels, Stalinism
- FilosofiKant, Nietzsche, Hegel, Spinoza, Locke
- CommunistsEngels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky
- German GreatsBeethoven, Bach, Goethe, Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck
MarxAdam Smith
Classical economics founder
Milton Friedman · Ayn Rand · Margaret Thatcher · Ronald Reagan · laissez-faire
MarxJohn Locke
English empiricist philosopher
Adam Smith · classical liberalism · conservatism · libertarianism · individualism
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- leave a markCreate lasting effect
- mark my wordsEmphatic prediction phrase
- on your markPre-race positioning command
- question markInterrogative sentence ender
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