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Title: Karl Marx


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Karl Marx
  • Who what what?

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What kind of guy would have said this?
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  • History calls those men the greatest who have
    ennobled themselves by working for the common
    good experience acclaims as happiest the man who
    has made the greatest number of people
    happy.Marx, Letter to His Father (1837)

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  • Reason has always existed, but not always in a
    reasonable form.Marx, Letter from the
    Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher to Ruge (1843)

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  • Political Economy regards the proletarian ...
    like a horse, he must receive enough to enable
    him to work. It does not consider him, during the
    time when he is not working, as a human being. It
    leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion,
    statistical tables, politics, and the
    beadle.Marx, Wages of Labour (1844)

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  • The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch
    the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the
    ruling material force of society, is at the same
    time its ruling intellectual force. The class
    which has the means of material production at its
    disposal, has control at the same time over the
    means of mental production, so that thereby,
    generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack
    the means of mental production are subject to it.
    Marx, German Ideology (1845)

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  • It will be the workers, with their courage,
    resolution and self-sacrifice, who will be
    chiefly responsible for achieving victory. The
    petty bourgeoisie will hesitate as long as
    possible and remain fearful, irresolute and
    inactive but when victory is certain it will
    claim it for itself and will call upon the
    workers to behave in an orderly fashion, and it
    will exclude the proletariat from the fruits of
    victory. ... the rule of the bourgeois democrats,
    from the very first, will carry within it the
    seeds of its own destruction, and its subsequent
    displacement by the proletariat will be made
    considerably easier..Marx, Address of the
    Central Committee to the Communist League (1850)

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This kind of guy.
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  1. What are your expectations of Marxism, based on
    these quotations?
  2. Read the extract on Marxism in your Critical
    Anthology and write a brief Dummies Guide to
    Marxism as a response.

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