Karl Marx

"Ideas do not exist separately from language."

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Source: Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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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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