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Classical Social Theory
Karl Marx 12/06/2006

I have chosen to write my essay on Karl Marx because his theory is very interesting. Karl Marx strove to put into sensible effect the humanitarian concept of Feuerbach. In doing so, he, along with close friend Friedrich Engels, founded a new economic movement called Socialism. According to Marx, the supreme end of man is an immature and material one, and consists in happiness. This material happiness must be obtained through a term they call organized collectivism. In fact, according to Marx, reality is governed by economic needs. Economic reality develops, that is, reality must deny itself in order to reach a higher degree of being. This principle means that the present organization of society must be destroyed (even through violent revolution, if necessary, because only through such destruction can a better political,......

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