Karl Marx Revisited

Karl Marx Revisited

Born on May 5th 1818 in Germany.

Died 14th March, 1883 aged 65.

Grandparents were Jews by birth but his father converted to Protestantism.

Wife Jenny von Westphalen.

Married in 1843

Happy marriage with 7 children.

Philosopher

In the University he was fascinated by J.W. F. Hegel

Idealism

Ontology

Epistemology

Metaphysics

Political philosophy

Journalist

He moved (exiled) to London and took the post of journalist as the European correspondent of the    New York Tribune.

Crisis over slavery and abolition movement.

Civil war in America.

Historian

Political activist

Revolutionary

Wrote The Communist Manifesto

Champion of the worker (preliterate)

Ruling Class (bourgeoisie)

Classless society

Das Capital

Economist

Karl Marx Revisited

I want to educate the Ceylonese masses of wrong connotation of political upheavals and spontaneous uprisings. These uprising have to be managed carefully and Dhamma or Buddhism should be freed from saffron clothed guys who are driving nuts on people's suffering. If, Karl Marx was here today he would have been very critical of Sanga.

I was looking for Karl Marx, Das Capital and could not find it.

Bought a book written on Communist Manifesto.

Here I would outline a few key words for public consumption. The definitions of these would come on a later date.

1. Capitalism.

2. Materialism.

3. Exploitation.

Globalisation without borders is a new concept that Karl Marx did not foresee

He did not see the war mongering neocolonialism.

Proletariat working class

Bourgeoisie middle class

Ruling class Church, The King and currently the neocolonial gulag

Communism

Revolution

Genesis of Church

I could not find the piece that said, the religion is opium of the people.

I could not find Unions and Labour Party.

General Genesis of Words was the sole authority of the Church and the word communion was its creation.

Authority, dogma, tradition and revelation are  their rigid protocol with added artificial morality.

That is the tragedy.

Authority, control, dogma, tradition and revelation do come from the Church.

Whereas logic, reason, empiricism and freedom of thought come from Karl Marx. These words are antithesis to the Church and no wonder why they tried to castrate his ability to question the authority of the Church, King and Business Magnates.

When one looks at Colonel Henry Steel Olcott his views are similar but he was liberal on all religions and he was against one God and One Church.

What one has to surmise is Karl Marx saw religion as an antithesis to open inquiry, socialism      and  scientific thinking

If he had read Kalama Sutta before his colossal work he would have coined the word liberalism in his thinking.

Even though, Karl Marx was a rational thinker he never coined the word Rationalism in his essays.     In fact, he avoided philosophy and rationalism from his vocabulary since, for a working class man, these fields have no meaning.

He was trying to simplify his thesis.

His aim was to liberate the working class man from the crutches and grip of King, Church and Business Magnates.

By the way, the first Labour Union was formed in America, in the capitalistic base.