hunger
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hunger hunger drives the wolf out of the wood even the fiercest animal will be driven from shelter by necessity; proverbial saying, late 15th century. A similar saying is found earlier in French.
hunger is the best sauce food which is needed will be received most readily. The saying is recorded in English from the early 16th century, but a similar thought is found in Cicero's
De Finibus, ‘hunger is the spice of food.’
hunger march a march undertaken by a group of people in protest against unemployment or poverty, especially any of those by unemployed workers in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Karl Marx.(Review)
Magazine article from: Melbourne Journal of Politics; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx. London: fourth estate. $49...translation of the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1850. As...demonstrates, Francis Wheen's Karl Marx presents a dramatic blend of the...
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Karl Marx: A Life
Magazine article from: Ideas on Liberty; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen W.W. Norton...the author as "an attempt to rediscover Karl Marx the man ... a Prussian immigrant who became...remarkably successful. As a treatment of "Karl Marx the Man," as opposed to Karl Marx the...
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KARL MARX: A LIFE.(Review)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 8/7/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of renowned communists -- one of Karl Marx, the other of William Z. Foster...the world. Only 11 people came to Karl Marx's funeral in London in 1883, hardly...the subjects of new biographies: Karl Marx: A Life (W.W. Norton, $27...
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Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' Lives On
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation; 11/28/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Talk of the Nation 11-28-2007 Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' Lives On Host...Kapital" and gave up on page two. Karl Marx's masterwork is forbiddingly long...that you're devoting this time to Karl Marx, the man who was written off some...
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A Requiem for Karl Marx.
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/29/1996; ; 700+ words
; A Requiem for Karl Marx, by Frank E. Manuel (Harvard, 255...contributions to scholarship in A Requiem for Karl Marx are large but largely hidden. Manuel...havoc in his name: For the sufferings of Karl Marx the exile, we can feel compassion...
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Marx@2000.com.(college professor describes teaching class on Karl Marx's 'Das Capital')
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Nobody seems to study Karl Marx anymore. Even in universities, once...emblazoned on one side of Johnny's (now Karl's) leather jacket: "Rebel With...The card is signed, "sincerely, Karl Marx." If that doesn't attract students...
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Building a library: Karl Marx
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Bakunin may have been a sworn enemy of Karl Marx, but he was big enough to admit...pursue this lead was SS Prawer, whose Karl Marx and World Literature (1976) revealed...most indispensably, I recommend Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, a four...
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A DETAILED PORTRAIT OF KARL MARX'S HUMANITY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...his magnum opus "Das Kapital," Karl Marx would seem to enjoy little appeal...pathetic portrait of the man. In "Karl Marx: A Life," Wheen is largely sympathetic...of handling his private affairs. Karl Marx was born in 1818 in the Rhineland...
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Karl Marx and Classical Antiquity: A Bibliographic Introduction.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Helios; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...society. In his essay "Marx and the Failure of Antiquity...noted exception to this w as Karl Marx, who was conscious of the...indeed later, historians." Marx stressed the ancient mode...Weber, Johannes Hasebroek, Karl Polanyi, and Moses Finley...
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Karl Marx and the tradition of Western political thought.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Hannah Arendt's manuscripts on Karl Marx are published here for the first...manifest than in her writings on Marx. The reader is referred to the first...been easy to think and write about Karl Marx. His impact on the already existing...
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Karl Marx
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Karl Marx The German philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary leader Karl Marx (1818-1883) founded modern "scientific...communist movements throughout the world. Karl Marx spent most of his life in exile. He was...
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Marx, Karl
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Karl Marx Born: May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany...and other material funds), and leader Karl Marx founded modern "scientific" socialism...movements throughout the world. Early life Karl Heinreich Marx was born in Trier, Rhenish Prussia...
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Marx, Karl: Impact on Anthropology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Marx, Karl: Impact on Anthropology Karl Marx was born in the Trier of the German Rhineland in 1818. He studied law and philosophy in Bonn and Berlin, completing a doctorate at the University of Jena in 1841. His thesis, “ The Difference...
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Marx, Karl: Impact on Sociology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Marx, Karl: Impact on Sociology The ideas of Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) on alienation, historical change, class relationships, the capitalist system, and social revolution have had a lasting impact on sociology, though interest in...
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Marx, Karl: Impact on Economics
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Marx, Karl: Impact on Economics Karl Marx ’ s economic analysis is mainly contained in three books: the three-volume Capital , the Theories of Surplus Value , also in three volumes, and the Grundrisse . In his economic works Marx...
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