There is no doubt Marx was influenced by Proudhon, in fact, Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy was written as a direct, cutting, response to Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty (Robinson) One of Proudhon's most noteworthy contemporaries was Michael Bakunin. ... First, European history professor and author Carl Landauer expresses the idea that anarchism is simply a utopian way of thinking. ... Author Friedrich Engels claims the decentralization advocated by most anarchists would destroy the modern industrial civilization. ...

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When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the verge of witnessing a great class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. ... His ideas and theories came to be known as Marxism, or scientific socialism, which constitutes one of the principals of contemporary political thought. ...

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Many scholarly pieces have been written on Karl Marx, the author of the communist manifesto. Many of these pieces critically analyze and focus solely on the beliefs and social structures that Marx assembles in his writings. Although errors and contradictory theories can be found in his writings, ...

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