Karl Marx was German political philosopher and revolutionist, and one of the most influential people in the history of the world. ... In the early years of the twentieth century, Russia was ready for the ideas of Marx. ... By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution of Communism. ... Not long afterward, Communist Russia was attacked by Britain, America and France, who wanted to get rid of the communist government. They were afraid the workers in their own countries might be inspired to imitate the example of Russia. ...

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Karl Heinrich Marx Karl Marx was the founder of marxism. He wrote many books and pamphlets on Marxism and the government. Marxism consists of three inter -related ideas: a philosophical view of man, a theory of history, and an economic and political program. Karl Marx was born on may 5, 1818, ...

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William Godwin was the first proclaimed anarchist in history and the first to write about anarchism (Calabrese 84). ... Anarchism fully blossomed as a defined theory when Russian anarchists Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) and Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) started to write and speak. ...

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