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19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium of the people". According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in Marx-Engels Forum, Berlin-Mitte, Germany 1948 Soviet Union stamp, featuring Marx and Engels, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto Marx's ideas have had a profound impact on world politics and intellectual thought, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 266 ] [ 267 ] in particular in the aftermath of the 1917 ...
Marx explained his belief that, in such a society, each person would be motivated to work for the good of society despite the absence of a social mechanism compelling them to work, because work would have become a pleasurable and creative activity. Marx intended the initial part of his slogan, "from each according to his ability" to suggest not ...
Marxist ethics is a doctrine of morality and ethics that is based on, or derived from, Marxist philosophy.Marx did not directly write about ethical issues and has often been portrayed by subsequent Marxists as a descriptive philosopher rather than a moralist. [1]
The expanded value-form expression really represents only an extension of the simple value form, where products alternate as relative and equivalent forms in order to be equated to each other. Marx argues that, as such, the expanded form of value is practically inadequate, because to express what any commodity is worth might now require the ...
The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion ...
Marx and Engels wrote a new preface for the 1882 Russian edition, translated by Georgi Plekhanov in Geneva. In it they wondered if Russia could directly become a communist society, or if she would become capitalist first like other European countries. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels provided the prefaces for five editions between 1888 and 1893.
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (German: Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844), also known as the Paris Manuscripts [1] (Pariser Manuskripte) or as the 1844 Manuscripts, [1] are a series of unfinished notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx.