# Karl Marx — The Story of Utopias character guide

> Karl Marx in The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Marx

**First appearance:** 0003-the-story-of-utopias

## Who they are

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

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/ii)

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

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/iii)

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

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/i)

Marx is listed as a key thinker whose semi-scientific investigations influenced 19th-century economic movements.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/v)

Mentioned for the Marxian analysis of society and its dream of a titanic struggle between possessors and dispossessed.

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