Karl Marx Philosophy

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Karl Marx Philosophy

Introduction

Karl Marx is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century . He was born and raised in Prussia and got influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach amongst other radical Hegelians . Though he subscribed to the Hegelian belief regarding the dialectical structure and the historical inevitability , Karl Marx believed that the fundamental reality was to be found in the material base of the economy as opposed to the conceptual ideal found in philosophy . Marx graduated with a doctoral

degree at Jena in the year 1841 after writing about the materialism and atheism of Greek atomists . He later moved to Ktzln where he established a radical news known as Rheinische Zeitung becoming its editor . He later moved to France and Belgium where he practiced some journalism before he finally settled in England in the year 1849 (Kemerling , para 1 . Here he lived in poor conditions and engaged in the study and development of his theories that cut across politics and economy . Karl Marx was of the belief that philosophy should be practical in to change the world This shall discuss the philosophical works of Karl Marx and how his work was regarded in the capitalistic society of the time

Karl Marx 's Philosophy

Karl Marx 's work was primarily based on the economy . In his work that was published in 1844 entitled `Economic and Political Manuscripts of 1844 , Marx presents an argument that the circumstances of the current industrial societies...