Karl Marx

"Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained."

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Source: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist

Karl Marx was a revolutionary thinker whose ideas on class struggle and capitalism, articulated in works like 'The Communist Manifesto', reshaped political theory.

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