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Ideas of Karl Marx, by Text

[German, 1818 - 1883, Born at Trier. Worked in the British Museum Reading Room. Died in London.]

1844 Contrib to Critique of Hegel's Phil of Right
Intro p.158 7128 Religion is the opium of the people, and real happiness requires its abolition
1844 On the Jewish Question
p.129 20519 Marxists say liberal rights are confrontational, and liberal equality is a sham [Wolff,J]
1846 Theses on Feuerbach
§II p.121 5297 Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory
§VI p.122 5298 The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations
§VII p.122 5299 Religious feeling is social in origin
§XI p.123 5300 Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it
1860 works
p.96 20576 Early Marx anticipates communitarian objections to liberalism [Oksala]
p.130 20958 Capitalism changes the world, by socialising the idea of a commodity [Bowie]
p.163 18653 Marx rejected equal rights because they never actually treat people as equals [Kymlicka]
p.251 18662 Liberal freedom is the right to be separate, and ignores the union of man with man
1867 Capital Vol. 1
p.728 p.102 20577 Even decently paid works still have their produce bought with money stolen from them