German philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist (1818 to 1883) whose historical materialism and critique of capital, developed largely with Friedrich Engels, provided the theoretical core of Marxism. His The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) was written directly against Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and his faction expelled Mikhail Bakunin's anarchist wing from the First International at the 1872 Hague Congress.
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Notable PublicationDas Kapital, Volume I (1867) 2 TraditionHistorical materialism (Marxism) 2 Karl Marx
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Mikhail Bakunin, Philosophers Marx's faction in the First International expelled Bakunin's anarchist wing at the 1872 Hague Congress after years of mutual polemic over the role of the state.
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Marx wrote The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) as a direct, book-length rebuttal of Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions, or the Philosophy of Poverty.
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Alienation, developed there.
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1. Wikipedia: Karl Marx
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Karl Marx (German: [ˈkaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818-14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist.
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Marx’s early writings are dominated by an understanding of alienation, a distinct social ill the diagnosis of which rests on a controversial account of human nature and its flourishing.
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- Associated With: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, entry: Karl Marx, Political activity
- Associated With: Mikhail Bakunin, entry: Karl Marx, Political activity
Associated With: Philosophy of Technology, entry: Philosophy of Technology, Section 3.2.4
The idea of analysing technology through the lenses of social power and justice goes back to Karl Marx, who, in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847), famously wrote: "The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist."
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Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyAssociated With: Philosophy of HistoryView the Source Antonio Gramsci (Wikipedia)
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Antonio Francesco Gramsci...was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician.
Louis Althusser (Wikipedia)
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affirming that Marx laid the 'cornerstones' of a new science, incomparable to all non-Marxist thought
G.A. Cohen (Wikipedia)
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His 1978 work Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence defends an interpretation of Karl Marx's historical materialism its critics often call technological determinism.
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