Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 3 of 5)

Marx developed the theories upon which modern communism is based and is considered the founding father of economic history and sociology.

Marx set down his ideas in The Communist Manifesto(1848) and Das Kapital ((3 vol., 1861, 1885, 1894) arguing that economic relations determined all other features of a society, including its ideas.

He also outlined the goal of Marxism - the creation of social and economic utopia by the revolution of the proletariat which would "centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state."

All class boundaries would be destroyed and each individual would find personal fulfilment, having no need for the bourgeois institutions of religion or family. Marx himself was an atheist, coining the phrase, "Religion is the opium of the people"

Marx continued to express views about class struggle and bourgeois oppression throughout his life, despite being exiled from his homeland and coping with both his own illness and the death of his children.

Most modern socialist theories are drawn from his work but Karl Marx has had a wider influence touching on many areas of human thought and life such as politics, economics, philosophy, and literature.

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[arzoyan]

Karl Marx contributed greatly to a scientific understanding of the dynamics of the evolution of recent human history and particularly the political economy of capitalism and obviously he was the man of his epoch, a visionary, a revolutinary for the cause of emancipation of humanity from class divided and antagonistic society. His thoughts and writtings have been systematically distorted by the right -wings and left wings of CAPITALIST camp both by sSTATISTS and so called Free Marketers

[itsBarberelli]

Very educating.

[jradetzky]

@winterequinox wow, your deep thinking will win you a place among history's greatest thinkers

NOT

[jradetzky]

@mrnighthawg yeah, great philosophers are always despicable lazy bums

[michaelwuzthere]

@mrnighthawg Like Obama? LOL.

[mrnighthawg]

Lazy fuck let 3 of hs kids starve lived in a shit hole apartment in England give me give me give me sort of like Obama FUCK COMMUNISM

[khavarian]

@theH0UNDSofD00M Rhetoric? Bring on the bloody revolution. I'm waiting!

[theH0UNDSofD00M]

@khavarian What a lot of rubbish, forming a socialist society with participative democracy and workers controlling the means of production makes us more then leaders or followers, makes us participants, agents of public good and stewards of the Earth... Your rhetoric really sucks.

[khavarian]

Big Poppy's a Bigger Target and anyone who follows him is the Biggest Loser.

Follow Marx and you'll lose your identity. Be a righteous leader and not a self-righteous follower.

[marxistsoldier]

Let me make this clear...

Stalinism - a planned nationalised economy controlled by monsterous authoritarian bureaucracy

Socialism - a planned nationalised economy controlled at every level by workers democracy.

There is a river of blood between the two, Stalin and his agents physically removed 1000's of genuine communists and the leader of the opposition to Stalin, Leon Trotsky,. was killed by an ice axe to the back of the head by an agent of Stalin.

[Diosibundo]

@arzoyan

Ha ha. Sorry about the "Commie", it was not meant disrespectfully!

[arzoyan]

@Diosibundo Thanks anyway, just take it easy