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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels , 1820-95, German socialist; with Karl Marx , one of the founders of modern Communism. The son of a wealthy Rhenish textile manufacturer, Engels went in 1842 to take a position in a factory near Manchester, England, in which his father had an interest. In 1844, while passing... Read more |
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proletariat
proletariat , in Marxian theory, the class of exploited workers and wage earners who depend on the sale of their labor for their means of existence. In ancient Rome, the proletariat was the lowest class of citizens; its members had no property or assured income and were a source of discontent and... Read more |
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx 1818-83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism . Early Life Marx's father, a lawyer, converted from Judaism to Lutheranism in 1824. Marx studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but became interested in philosophy and took a Ph.D. degree at Jena... Read more |
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Labor theory of value
Value, Labor Theory ofBIBLIOGRAPHYThe labor theory of value is the general name given to a set of economic doctrines developed by the English classical school, particularly Adam Smith and David Ricardo, and adopted by Karl Marx. Very loosely, it states that the value of goods is derived from labor,... Read more |
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Highgate
Highgate residential area within Camden, Islington, and Haringey boroughs, London, England. The house where Francis Bacon died is in Highgate, and Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, and Karl Marx are buried in Highgate cemetery in Camden. Highgate School, a public school founded in 1565, is there.... Read more |
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International
International any of a succession of international socialist and Communist organizations of the 19th and 20th cent. The First International The First International was founded in London in 1864 as the International Workingmen's Association. Karl Marx was a key figure in inspiring its creation... Read more |
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religious
Religiosity FUNDAMENTALISM BIBLIOGRAPHY Religiosity is a term used by social scientists to refer to religious behavior. Social scientists generally view religion as a cultural system of shared beliefs and rituals that offers a sense of transcendent meaning and purpose. Religion is often... Read more |
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Dictatorship of the Proletariat
DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT The concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat originated with Karl Marx and was applied by Vladimir Lenin as the organizational principle of the communist state after the Russian Revolution. Josef Stalin subsequently adopted it to organize workers' states in... Read more |
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Class consciousness
Class Consciousness BIBLIOGRAPHY The concept of class consciousness emerged in nineteenth-century socialist theories of social emancipation, mainly in the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx’s critique of the idealist philosophy of Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) led... Read more |
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Wilhelm Marx
Wilhelm Marx , 1863-1946, German statesman. A Reichstag member, he was a leading figure of the Catholic Center party and was elected its president in 1921. As chancellor (1923-24) he secured the passage of the Dawes Plan. He was succeeded by Hans Luther, whom he followed again as chancellor... Read more |
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Breaking up is hard to do
...in March 1982. The author of the Marx biography is Frank E. Manuel...thinking about what went wrong with Marx's widely shared dream of a better...the book for you. Manuel's "A Requiem for Karl Marx" has everything you ever wanted... |
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FRANK MANUEL, AT 92; AUTHOR, SCHOLAR OF `HISTORY OF IDEAS'
...devout Christian; and "The Broken Staff," about Christian animosity toward Judaism. He was also the author of "Requiem for Karl Marx," a biography informed by the fall of the Soviet Union. "He was a great scholar of the history of ideas... |
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Requiem for the kibbutz
SAUL SINGER Jerusalem Post 12-26-2003 Headline: Requiem for the kibbutzByline: SAUL SINGEREdition; Up FrontSection...ideal is not perfection, but to manage imperfection? Karl Marx was a Jewish anti- Semite who wrote that "Money... |
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Labor: The requiem
00-00-0000 Headline: Labor: The requiem Byline: Amotz Asa-El Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page...asset was socialism. The party whose founders actually read Karl Marx and built numerous assets for the non-rich - including the... |
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Requiem.(Movie review)
...costume designer, Bettina Marx: sound (Dolby Digital...Burghart Klaussncr, Imogen Kogge, Karl Klingler, Friederike Adolph...blessings of father Burghart (Karl Klingler) and in spite of the...Crazy." Good as those are, "Requiem" resonates with deeper, more... |
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Where Being in the Red Now Rules!
...From Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Marx-Engels Reader were shelved under...free of galactic-size shackles. As Karl Marx himself once noted, "Landlords...collection, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem, chronicling an ill-fated road... |
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In Review: SALZBURG
...preaches the word of another "god" - Karl Marx. Luigi Nono, a devout Communist...scenica (scenic action). It's a requiem for the victims of the class struggle...libretto is a collage of quotations from Marx, Lenin, Brecht and similar sources... |
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In review: Stuttgart
...Castro, Che Guevara, Maxim Gorky and Cesare Pavese, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin) of the texts assembled by Nono and...Appropriately, the work has been called a "scenic requiem." Its array of closely interconnected sounds, often... |
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MOVING IMAGES PASA PICS.(Pasatiempo)(Movie review)
...double takes are priceless. A political subtext involving Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto runs throughout the film, but...Taos. NOW IN THEATERS (ONION) ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM The newest addition to 20th Century Fox's time-tested... |
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What if it's true, after all? Libby Purves on the threat that Christmas poses...
...strictures against oppressing the poor came long before Karl Marx's; the doctrine of forgiveness and redemption long...pop composer seems to feel accepted until he has done a requiem. But if it is just "heritage", or a branch of cultural... |
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