Feuerbach also states ".thought proceeds from being, not being from thought" (Giddens 3). Feuerbach's philosophy says that god only exists as far as man believes in him. Man sees God as a perfect, all-powerful being in contrast to himself who seems imperfect. Feuerbach says that all the love that we once put toward God must be redirected towards man. This had a huge impact on Marx and the rest of the Doctors Club. .
In 1843, Marx left Berlin and moved to Paris where he and some friends started publishing a periodical called "Deutsch-Franzosiche Jahrbucher." Here Marx met many people who's views were similar to his own including Frederick Engles. Engles would remain one of Marx's best friends, and helped him develop many of his ideas. After a year in Paris he was kicked out, so he and his family moved to London in 1847. While in London Marx helped formed the international Communist League. In 1848 he wrote The Manifesto of the Communist Party. He moved to Paris again and was involved in some revolutionary activities, but was soon asked to leave again. He spent the rest of his life in London studying and writing.
Marx used Hegal's dialectic view on history, and Feuerbach's thoughts on the material order of the universe to produce his own concept of historical materialism. According to Marx, the history of society is the history of class struggles. From the beginning of known history there has always been the oppressor and the oppressed. These two forces are always at conflict, and the outcome is either the destruction of both classes, or the reconstitution of society. There has always been classes in society, and in every period of history there are subordinate classes. In Marx's time society had split into two major classes termed the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois represents the rich ruling ruling class, and the proletariat the poor working class.
The bourgeoisie developed from the old feudal society with the increase of commerce, navigation, and industry that the discovery of America, and the industrial revolution caused.
