Karl Marx Essays -- essays research papers

Karl Marx was the creator of Marxism and a new type of economy and government. His ideas were sympathetic to the working class people and emphasized the community rather than the individual. His theories spawned collectivism and his ideas still remain in effect in some new-made day countries.     Marxs ideas originate from his experiences in Europe and his collaboration with Frederich Engels. In addition, Marxs work seems to be more of a criticism of Hegelian and another(prenominal)(a) philosophy, than as a statement of his own philosophy. While Hegel felt that philosophy explained reality, Marx felt that philosophy should be made into reality, a hard matter to do. He thought that one must not just assure at and inspect the world, but must try to transform the world, oft like Jean Paul Sartres view that "man must admit what is best for the world and he will do so."      Marx is unique from other philosophers in that he choose s to regard man as an individual, a human race being. This is evident in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. There, he declares that man is a "natural being" who is endowed with "natural and vital powers" that "exist in him as aptitudes and instincts." Humans simply peel with nature for the satisfaction of mans needs. From this struggle comes mans awareness of himself as an individual and as something separate from nature. So, he seeks to react nature. He sees that...