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Marxism

The catalogue includes 4 thinkers in Marxism.

How these pages are made

Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.

Thinkers in this tradition

  • Ernst Bloch
    1885 – 1977

    Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was a German Marxist philosopher who placed hope at the centre of thought. His three-volume The Principle of Hope, largely written in American exile during the Nazi years, explores daydreams,…

  • Friedrich Engels
    1820 – 1895

    Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher and revolutionary who co-founded Marxism with Karl Marx, with whom he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer, he documented…

  • Karl Marx
    1818 – 1883

    Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist and social theorist whose analysis of capitalism became one of the most influential bodies of thought in modern history. With Friedrich Engels he wrote The…

  • Ludwig Feuerbach
    1804 – 1872

    Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) was a German philosopher whose The Essence of Christianity (1841) argued that God is a projection of humanity's own ideal qualities. By turning theology into anthropology, he urged that love…