Karl Marx

"England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain."

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Source: The Future Results of British Rule in India, New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.

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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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