Case study #3 - Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

KarL Marx And Fredrich Engels

It is impossible to mention the history, politics, economy thoughts, the theory of social science, history of 20th century without Marx whether the situation about him is positive or negative. Some people say the end of the Marxism, Marx is rather the start of any problems than the end or conclusion of any problems.

After the street battle for seven days, Commune was collasped and three thousand nations did.

" Commune is essentially a working class government, the produce of the struggle of the producing against the appropriating class, the political form, at last discovered, under which to work out the economic emancipation of Labour " From here!!

May,28,1871, the barricade of the Paris Commune was fallen. When Marx's discourse was approved, it was eulogy to Paris Commune. He treated the bourgeois nation as a public violence organized for social enslavement of labors and a tool of the class dictatorship.

A dissipated drinker to the Philosophy Addict.

The die of his father, the marriage with devotional wife.......

At that time Preussen was been dominant by the reactionary conservatism. When he went to Paris, he met the lifetime comrade Fredrich Engels.In 1845, Marx was banished by the scheme of Preussen. He migrated to the Brussel and published Germany Ideology(1845-46) and Poverty of Philosophy. By the request of alliance of communism, he wrote the Communist Manifesto.

"The Communist Manifesto - A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself. To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages."

"Working men of all countries, unite!"


He got banished from  Preussen, Paris, Cologne. He migrated to London after Paris.

The life in London was corruptive, as the word is. He was too poor. He kept writing.
According to Marx, there are two classes in the society : squeezing proletariat who owns labor and capitalist who owns means of the production.
Labor produces the over value than the wage, the only thing that labor get is minimum for maintaining labor force. The surplus value produced by labors got occupied by capitalist. However, the development of production in a period is contradicted by Relation of production. This contradiction is moving force for fulfilling the history. It can bring up a financial panic in capitalism. The accord between production and the Relation of Production can be achieved by sharing means of Production after imputing. Through this, people can make the society which doesn't have ultimate exploitation and classes.

The book Capital is not completed, but it will bring up many books.

Before 10 years from his death, he couldn't write for his health. He was interested in the possibility of revolution in Russia. His attitude was quite vague.

In the end of 1883, when Engels visited Marx's house, he was died. His death was unacknowledged death except some phatic eulogies. Pall Mall Gazette said

"The book Capital is not completed, but it will bring up many books. Also, It might have influence effect  for those people who think the social problems seriously.

( Reference )

-http://www.workersliberty.org/node/7441

-http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Commonism

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