Friday, November 9, 2007

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution


Karl Marx is known as a philosopher. He was born into a middle class in Germany on may 5, 1818. Karl Marx was the most socialist thinker in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime. He was educated at the university of Berlain. And i think that he felt the industrial revolution was bad for mankind. So Karl Marx believed that something needed to change for the sake of mankind.
When Marl Marx went to London at that time was assembled the entire flower of the refugees from all the nations of the continent. There were something of every kind, and the gentlemen concerned no doubt now look back on that period as the most unsuccessful of their lives. But later he withdrew into the British Museum and worked through the immense and as yet for the most part of a library there for all that it contained on political economy. And at the same time he was a regular contributor to the New York tribune.
His criticism of the deliberations of the Rhine Province Assembly compelled Marx to study questions of material interest. In pursuing that he found himself confronted with points of view which neither jurisprudence nor philosophy had taken account of. Proceeding from the Hegelian philosophy of law, Marx came to the conclusion that it was not the state, which Hegel had described as the “top of the edifice,” but “civil society,” which Hegel had regarded with disdain, that was the sphere in which a key to the understanding of the process of the historical development of mankind should be looked for. However, the science of civil society is political economy, and this science could not be studied in Germany, it could only be studied thoroughly in England or France.

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