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Title: Karl Marx 18181883


1
Karl Marx 1818-1883
  • I Life
  • IICommunist Manifesto
  • III Critical Evaluation

2
Life of Marx (1)
  • 1818 born into German-Jewish bourgeois family
  • 1839-41 PhD in Greek philosophy
  • 1841-42 begins writing for
  • newspapers
  • 1842 befriends Friedrich Engels
  • 1843 marries
  • Jenny von Westphalen
  • 1843 moves to Paris

3
Paris during the 1840s
  • Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
  • Silesian Waver Riot 1844
  • Doomed by the king, the rich mans king,
  • Who would not be moved by our suffering
  • Who tore the last coin out of our hands,
  • And let us be shot by his blood-thirsty bands

4
Life of Marx (2)
  • 1844 accused of high treason by Prussian
    government
  • 1845 banished from Paris,
  • moves to Brussels
  • 1848 publication of Communist Manifesto in London
  • 1849 moves to London
  • 1849-83 economic studies
  • in the British Museum
  • 1856 new lodgings
  • 1867 Das Kapital (vol. I)
  • 1881 wife Jenny dies
  • 1883 daughter Jenny dies
  • 1883 the beard comes off in Tunis
  • 1883 Marx dies March 14 in his armchair by the
    fire

5
Communist Manifesto 1. Basic Assumptions
  • History of class struggle (1)
  • State as executive committee of the bourgeoisie
    (3)
  • From feudalism to naked exploitation (3)

6
Communist Manifesto 2. Analysis of capitalist
modernity
  • Mobility (4)
  • Globalization (4-5)
  • Crisis (6)
  • Alienation (7)

7
Communist Manifesto 3. Communist Programme
  • Philosopher-King Party (13)
  • Family and Education (16-17)
  • Party Platform (19-20)

8
III Critical Evaluation
  • recognizes relentless dynamic of modern
    capitalism
  • pre-formulates modern welfare state
  • underestimates capitalist success and resilience
  • underestimates American dream

9
And the rest is history
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