K A R L M A R X
1. L I F E / E D U C A T I O N
Eleanor Marx
Profession & Career
Published Works
Achievements
Life & Education
Controversies and Criticisms
Birth and Death
Marriage
and Family
- Heinrich & Henrietta, homeschooled 12 years
- Jewish turned Christian
- HIGHSCHOOL: Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium
- University of Bonn - humanities
- University of Berlin - law, philosophy
- Hegel's idealist philosophy
- University of Jena - Doctorate 1841 April
- no teaching career, went into journalism:
- Rheinische Zeitung (Cologne) - suppression
- Paris, France
- Deutsch- französische Jahrbücher - end after 1 issue
- Met Friedrich Engels - became partners/friends
- Vorwärts! - put Marx into exile, 1845
- Brussels, Belgium
- founded 1846 Communist Correspondence Committee, Communist League
- Rhineland, Germany 1848 revolutions - Failed
- Belgium - Exile
- France - Deportation
- London, England
- New York Daily Tribune
- research for Das Kapital
- First International - became
leader, broke up 1876
- continued research, writings
- biggest achievements were his published works
- turned Rheinische Zeitung into a leading journal
- founded Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1843 with Ruge
- founded Communist Correspondence Committee, 1846
- founded German Workers’ Educational Society in London
- became leader of the First International
- elected, 1847, Vice-President of the Brussels Democratic Association
- lifelong work and research
May 5, 1818 (Trier, Prussia)
March 14, 1883 (London, England)
- Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1848
- Various newspapers and journals
- The Holy Family with Engels in 1845
- Das Kapital
- Volume 1, 1867
- Volumes 2 and 3, 1885 and 1894
- On the Jewish Question
- The German Ideology
- Theses on Feuerbach
- Wages, Price and Profit
- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
- The Poverty of Philosophy
- The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
- Critique of the Gotha Program
- notes, titled, “Grundrisse”
AND MUCH MORE
- rebel, arrogant intellectual
- "democratic dictator"
- Marx felt uneasy with audiences
- lived on Engel's money
- some say he isn't responsible for communism b/c the capitalism he knew is much different
- Jenny von Westphalen 1843
- 7 children, 3 daughters survived
- illegitimate son
International Working Men’s Association
the British Museum
FWG, Trier
U. Jena, Germany c.1600
Stalin
Theories, Goals, and Works
Bakunin
Influence and
Fame
Change in Society
Rivals
and Problems
Repercussions
to Change
- major impact in sociology, history
- inspired generations of economic thins
- societies transformed
- revered among revolutionaries
- founer of modern communism
- Marxism influence, many branches e.g. Trotskyism
philosophies
theory of value
- materialism
- social class & exploitation - alienation
- capitalism - socialism - communism
- goal to interpret society AND promote change through revolution
- played part in Paris Commune of 1871
to bring about the revolution; failed
- Leninism, Russian Revolution
- self-proclaimed "Marx's heir"
- called for organized revolution from organized Communist party
- Stalinism
- led to modern communism
- North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba
- Studies in Marxism branches
- Trostsky, Zedong, etc.
- Frankfurt School
- trouble with publications, government suppressions
- democratic socialists, anarchists
- Bakunin and anarchists
- tried to takeover leadership
- same goal, different means
- said Marxism would just make another ruling class
T H A N K Y O U
F O R L I S T E N I N G
- original thesis: equality for all
- today: totalitarian control by government
- e.g. North Korea - millions dead/dying, classification system favouring a few, no civil rights,
etc.