A BACKGROUND STUDY OF KARL MARX
A BACKGROUND STUDY OF KARL MARX
A POSITION PAPER
SUBMITTED TO DR. WARREN JONES, JR.
OF
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE
PHILOSOPHY: 211
IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITY
ALYSIA JOHNSON
03/02/2015
Karl Marx was born in in a Jewish family in 1818. His family ended up switching their religion due to laws banning Jews from high society. Karl’s father became a Christian after turning 35. Karl along with his 8 siblings was baptized as Lutherans. Karl Marx was home schooled until he was twelve years old. Marx was an average student in schools. He started his college studies at the University of Bonn. He didn’t take his education seriously at this point in his life. He did a lot of partying that caused him to go to jail and end up in debt. His father pushed him to enroll in the University of Berlin. There he studied law and philosophy. He graduated with his doctorate from the University of Jena. He couldn’t get a job teaching because he belonged to a radicalistic group known as the Young Hegelians. They were known for criticizing religious and political establishments.
Marx became an editor for a liberal influential newspaper. His articles made the Prussian government get rid of the newspaper. He questioned their economies and they didn’t approve of that. He then moved to Paris where he started to series, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. He focused them on communist in the eyes of a humanist. He studied history and developed, The German Ideology. Joined the communist league and wrote, The Class Struggles in France, and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonapsite. Marx believed that in order to know about things you had to study. Human history had to be studied to understand what really went on. He saw it as stories of social classes and their struggles. He didn’t believe that there were differences between classes.
Marx was elected to the First International by their
A POSITION PAPER
SUBMITTED TO DR. WARREN JONES, JR.
OF
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE
PHILOSOPHY: 211
IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITY
ALYSIA JOHNSON
03/02/2015
Karl Marx was born in in a Jewish family in 1818. His family ended up switching their religion due to laws banning Jews from high society. Karl’s father became a Christian after turning 35. Karl along with his 8 siblings was baptized as Lutherans. Karl Marx was home schooled until he was twelve years old. Marx was an average student in schools. He started his college studies at the University of Bonn. He didn’t take his education seriously at this point in his life. He did a lot of partying that caused him to go to jail and end up in debt. His father pushed him to enroll in the University of Berlin. There he studied law and philosophy. He graduated with his doctorate from the University of Jena. He couldn’t get a job teaching because he belonged to a radicalistic group known as the Young Hegelians. They were known for criticizing religious and political establishments.
Marx became an editor for a liberal influential newspaper. His articles made the Prussian government get rid of the newspaper. He questioned their economies and they didn’t approve of that. He then moved to Paris where he started to series, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. He focused them on communist in the eyes of a humanist. He studied history and developed, The German Ideology. Joined the communist league and wrote, The Class Struggles in France, and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonapsite. Marx believed that in order to know about things you had to study. Human history had to be studied to understand what really went on. He saw it as stories of social classes and their struggles. He didn’t believe that there were differences between classes.
Marx was elected to the First International by their
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