Critic of Capital
Karl Marx
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A German philosopher and economist who analyzed capitalism, the estrangement of workers from their work, and how economic life shapes ideas.
Key work: Capital, volume one (1867)
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Work under capitalism can estrange people from what they make.
Those who rule an age shape the ideas it takes for granted.
How a society produces shapes how it thinks.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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