Karl Marx--In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher

Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 1 of 5)
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Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 2 of 5)
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Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 3 of 5)
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Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 4 of 5)
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Karl Marx - BBC Radio 4 In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher (Part 5 of 5)
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Marx developed the theories upon which modern communism is based and is considered the founding father of economic history and sociology. He also outlined the goal of Marxism - the creation of social and economic utopia by the revolution of the proletariat which would "centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state."
All class boundaries would be destroyed and each individual would find personal fulfilment, having no need for the bourgeois institutions of religion or family. Marx himself was an atheist, coining the phrase, "Religion is the opium of the people"
Marx continued to express views about class struggle and bourgeois oppression throughout his life, despite being exiled from his homeland and coping with both his own illness and the death of his children.
Most modern socialist theories are drawn from his work but Karl Marx has had a wider influence touching on many areas of human thought and life such as politics, economics, philosophy, and literature.
Lecture on Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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Lecture to second year undergraduate students at Cambridge University in 2001 by Alan Macfarlane on some aspects of the work of Karl Marx. For the background, downloadble version, readings etc. please see www.alanmacfarlane.com
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Karl Marx
See also
Class struggle
Das Kapital
Friedrich Engels
historical materialism
History of socialism
Jenny von Westphalen
Karl Marx House
Marxian Class Theory
Marxism
The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
The Frankfurt School
Young Marx
External links
Bibliography and online texts
Wikisource has original works written by or about:
Karl Marx
Marxists Internet Archive(see also Marxists Internet Archive)
Works by Karl Marx in audio format from LibriVox
Works by Karl Marx at Project Gutenberg
Works by Karl Marx (in German) at Zeno.org
Libertarian Communist Library Karl Marx Archive
"Marx in the Twenty-First Century" a seminar of the University of Paris La Sorbonne (in French)
Biographies
Friedrich Engels' Biography of Marx
Vladimir Lenin's Karl Marx Biography
Franz Mehring's Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Francis Wheen's Karl Marx: A Life
Karl Marx biography at Free Info Society
Articles and entries
Actuel Marx (French Research Center, founded by Jacques Bidet - some translations in English)
Dead Sociologists n Karl Marx
Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx
Portraits of Karl Marx
Paul Dorn, The Paris Commune and Marx' Theory of Revolution
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
Marxmyths.org Various essays on misinterpretations of Marx
Why Marx is the Man of the Moment
Liberalism, Marxism and The State, by Ralph Raico
Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities, by Ralph Raico
Marx, Mao and mathematics: the politics of infinitesimals, by Joseph Dauben
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism, by David North
BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme on Marx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
Watch also
2009-02-19 | Karl Marx: Wage Labour and Capital (Ch. 1) (Videos)
2009-02-19 | The Communist Manifesto (part 1--10 )/videos