Karl Marx
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- proper noun
- /kɑrl mɑrks/
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Karl Marx
- Rising wealth meant that more and more people were able to flee what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had called "the idiocy of rural life": between 1900 and 1980, the proportion of the world's population that lived in large cities more than doubled.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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That line is from Karl Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program.
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Karl Marx had died weeks before, so the socialist leader August Bebel consulted his friend Friedrich Engels.
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I suggest beginning with Karl Marx's views.
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Does that include the writings of Karl Marx?
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Arguably, Karl Marx was the modern Western philosopher par excellence.
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Weber's idealism is often contrasted with Karl Marx's historical materialism.
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Karl Marx asserted that economics drives everything else; such turmoil suggests that politics is mightier still.
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Leading theorists, most notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, offered alternative claims about which socioeconomic and political systems would prove most viable given the constraints and opportunities of the Industrial Revolution.
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In Almanac of the Dead, Silko finds commonalities between tribalism and Karl Marx's thinking, in particular in what she understands as their shared antipathy toward modern individualism.
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Karl Marx is known for his influential ideas about capitalism and socialism.
Synonyms
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A German writer who describes how workers, money, and power shape society
Surface Forms
Morphology
Karl + Marx
This is a proper name rather than a compositional phrase: knowing the constituents 'Karl' and 'Marx' does not let a learner infer the biographical and ideological information (German philosopher, economist, founder of modern communism). Understanding who Karl Marx is requires world/cultural knowledge rather than derivation from the words, so the expression is not transparently interpretable from its parts.
Etymology
Karl Marx was a German thinker in the 1800s who studied how work, money and power fit together. He wrote books like 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital' saying that workers should control factories, so today his name often stands for the political ideas called 'Marxism'.