Karl Marx Research Paper

Karl Marx, a great German philosopher, journalist, economist, and socialist, brought a revolutionary change in the society through his ideas. His work has clearly incorporated philosophy with technology. His ideas uplifted the society where people enjoyed equal rights and earned good salary. He explains the relationship between technological commodities and human labor. He was strictly against capitalism where he feels that all the profits which Capitalists gain are on the expense of the labor and time. According to him it is the time devoted by labor with the raw material that makes raw material into a commodity, which further becomes of some value. His way of thinking has brought a drastic change in the thinking of the society.

Karl Marx was very much influenced by the work of Friedrich Hegel’s, and later with Ludwig Feuerbach. In 1845 in his first thesis he wrote 11 small notes describing his views and criticism of Feuerbach’s work about materialism and idealism, and gave his views about the philosophical work. “Marx criticizes materialism and idealism by saying that it is completely devoid of human sensuous activity and focuses more on the sensuousness conceived in the form of the object. He says that Feuerbach wants sensuous objects, but does not conceive human activity as objective activity and regards theoretical attitude as the only genuinely human attitude.” (Page 143)

In his second thesis he explored the importance of truth which according to him is determined by its use and value in practical life. If we ignore the truth we move away from the reality. In his third thesis he has expanded the views on ‘revolutionary practice’ which he had mentioned in the first thesis. Though he supports Feuerbach’s view on religion, bu...

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...etishism of Commodities” The word ‘Fetishism’, meaning belief in magical power, is used relating it to commodities to tell us that the goods, after production, have a false magical powers and is used in relation with religion too.

In the further reading, “Division of Labor”, Marx has focuses on how the work is divided between the various societies. Division of labor is a general concept which leads to better production of commodities. When different workers with different specializations come together they form an ideal society where varieties of good quality products are available to the society.

I don’t agree with most of the thoughts and idea of Karl Marx but I do recognize the importance of his writings about capitalism and his philosophy which are of great importance to the society, He was a great philosopher, socialist and a great thinker of his time.