The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...

Eventually, each person becomes his or her own god. Soon enough, it ends in Karl Marx’s ultimate goal: the undermining if not annihilation of religion. There’s more than a little irony ...

“Marx was not our contemporary,” Jonathan Sperber insists, in “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century ... example of this was the Christian God. (This is what Feuerbach wrote about.) ...

Is Karl Marx woke? Surely, he is ... Hegel argues that the only thing that exists is Spirit, that is, God, and God is working out the nature of His existence through ideas that are the phases ...

Henriette Marx, Karl’s mother, did not convert until 1825 ... What is his secular God? Money.” Avineri notes that Marx’s contemporaries would have been familiar with such language, since ...

confessing “a pure belief in God, like Newton, Locke, and Leibnitz.” The study “Who Are They?: Karl Marx” prepared at the request of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities ...

At Karl Marx’s funeral, his longtime friend and collaborator ... became a “horizontal religion,” replacing God with history, and eternal salvation with an earthly paradise.

Karl Marx was the most important thinker in the history of the socialist movement. He advocated an egalitarian society in which ordinary workers would democratically run the “means of production ...

For nearly two centuries, Karl Marx’s ideas have had a significant impact on US politics and intellectual life. In turn, Marx’s close study of the US informed the development of his ideas ...

Most of their efforts will never see the light of day. But sometimes the crank is Karl Marx, and the book being written is Capital. Upon beginning work on his magnum opus in the Reading Room of ...