Marxism
Marx Karl Heinrich Marx was a revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and an economist. He was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Rhineland, Germany, or Prussia at that time. He was born into a professional family with deep Rabbinic roots. His father, Heinrich, at the time was a successful lawyer. Baptized at the age of six, he was not greatly influenced by religion; rather, it was the radical social policies during the Enlightenment that influenced him greatly. The reason for this was partly because of his Jewish background, which exposed him to prejudice and discrimination, which caused him to question the role of religion in life, thereby fuelling his interest for a change in his society. In October 1836, he left for the University of Bonn, where he joined the “Young Hegelians” who were more or less, disciples of Hegel’s philosophy. Over time, he began to reject the “Young Hegelians” as being sufficiently less materialist and realist. After moving to Paris and writing his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, he already saw himself as a communist. He saw “socialism” as being a pacific term veering more towards Utopian ideas, while “communism” was a more militant word, implying the revolutionary
With the “Age of Discovery,” the middle class became very important, and powerful, able to dictate the goings of a country. As the country’s wealth depended on the middle class, they eventually drove out the ruling class, consolidating their power over the country. The working class was left where it was and exploited by the bourgeoisie for their own devices. From this event, we can see that high level slavery has begun to rear its head, except under different names of bourgeoisie and the proletariat, master and slave respectively. In the history of philosophy, there are two main philosophies, idealism and materialism. Idealism deals with the concept that a divine spirit created every material thing, and that human action is spurred from abstract thoughts, not from their material needs. Materialism however deals, with the opposite of idealism, that the material world is real and that nature and matter are primary. The mind or the ideas are the product of the brain. The brain, and therefore the idea came about, at one state, in the development of living matter. It is because of this materialistic belief held in Marxism that causes it to be atheist, as it dismisses the fact that the material world came into existence through the works of the supernatural. Dialectical philosophy states that nothing is final, absolute and sacred. It shows the characteristic of transition of everything and in everything; nothing can endure before it, save for the uninterrupted process of becoming and passing away. The law of negation of the negation deals with the development through a series of contradictions. These contradictions may negate a previous fact or theory, only to be negated in its turn. However, this negation does not mean the total annulment of the previous, rather the annulment and preservation of it. An example of the law of negation of the negation can be found in our history.
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Middle Ages,
Friedrich Engels,
Southern Greece,
According Lenin,
Germany Prussia,
Philosopher’s Stone”,
Communist Manifesto,
Philosophical Manuscripts,
University Bonn,
Marx Engels,
slave society,
material world,
negation negation,
transmutation elements,
middle class,
matter primary,
law negation negation,
communist system,
law negation,
wisdom knowledge gains,
barbarism period,
class society,
tribal communist system,
glorified slave society,
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