The Story of Utopias · Character

Karl Marx

German philosopher and economist whose socialist theories are discussed in context.

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Also known as Marx

Karl Marx shows up with force in II. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Included among the 'practical' men of the nineteenth century whose idola patterned behavior, alongside Macaulay.

Karl Marx first appears in 0003 the story of utopias.

In II: Included among the 'practical' men of the nineteenth century whose idola patterned behavior, alongside Macaulay.

Later, in III: Marx is mentioned in a comparison suggesting that early Soviet Russia had more of Cabet than Marx in its embryonic form.

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II
Included among the 'practical' men of the nineteenth century whose idola patterned behavior, alongside Macaulay.
III
Marx is mentioned in a comparison suggesting that early Soviet Russia had more of Cabet than Marx in its embryonic form.
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Marx is listed as a key thinker whose semi-scientific investigations influenced 19th-century economic movements.
II
Marx's realistic socialism is critiqued as ineffective, with his literary picture of the dictatorship of the proletariat noted as a key influence.
V
Mentioned for the Marxian analysis of society and its dream of a titanic struggle between possessors and dispossessed.

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