Abstract The purpose of this paper is to perform a critical analysis on Karl Marx and some of his most notable works. ... An Analysis of Karl Marx Throughout the history of sociology, there have been many theorists that have achieved acclaim; but few have impacted the development and foundation for the discipline of sociology as much as Karl Marx. ... Brief Biography Born to an upper middle class family in 1818 in Prussia (Germany), Marx was exposed to the ideas of social change at a young age (Marx and McLellan, 2000). ... According to Marx, a commodity is "an external object, a thing wh...

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One of the most popular of those finds a lot of inspiration in the so-called "historical materialism- that was formulated by Karl Marx. ... Foley's thinking is deeply influenced by Marx' ideas but Foley is trying to fill in some of the gaps that Marx left. To understand which gaps, we need briefly to review some of Marx' ideas. ... One may not like what Marx had to say, but there are few important aspects of social life that he did not consider and try to explain. ... In Marx' view, a social class consists of all the persons who are related to the means of productio...

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It was Karl Marx was first scrutinised the 'bourgeois freedoms' created by the English and French revolutions. Marx saw the unfolding of human history to be due to the outcome of economic, rather than merely political conflicts: 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle' ( Marx and Engels 1962). Marx saw inequality as a reflection of differential access to the means of production and what was produced. ... Marx was a major proponent of this view, seeing class struggle as the major motive force in human history. ... A major point of c...

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This also dispels somewhat Miliband's claim that the 'dominant class' uses the state as what his fore-runner of socialism Karl Marx might have called a 'tool of oppression' to subjugate the working proletariat. ...

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