Marx attended high school in his home town (1830-1835) where several teachers and pupils were under suspicion of harboring liberal ideals. Marx himself seemed to be a devoted Christian with a "longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of humanity." In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. During this time, he spent a day in jail for being "drunk and disorderly-the only imprisonment he suffered" in the course of his life. The student culture at Bonn included, as a major part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involve

An interesting mark of Marx's analysis of economy is evidenced in Das Kapital, where he "studies the economy as a whole and not in one or another of its" parts and sections. His analysis is based on the precept of man being a productive entity and that "all economic value comes from human labor."

Marx also says that the more man works as a laborer, the less he has to consume for himself because his "product and labor are estranged" from him. Marx says that because the work of the laborer is taken away and does not belong to the laborer, the laborer loses his "rightful existence" and is made alien to himself. Private property becomes a product and cause of "alienated labor" and through that, causes disharmony. "Alienated labor is seen as the consequence of market product, the division of labor, and the division of society into antagonistic classes."

Marx's work seems to be more of a criticism of Hegelian and other philosophy, than as a statement of his own philosophy. While Hegel felt that philosophy explained reality, Marx felt that philosophy should be made into reality, an hard thing to do. He thought that one must not just look at and inspect the world, but must try to transform the world, much like Jean Paul Sartre's view that "man must choose what is best for the world; and he will do so."

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