Ludwig Feuerbach's The German Idealism

I was born in the city of Trier in Germany on May 5th 1818. I attended the University of Bonn at the age of 17 with the idea that I would study law, seeing as my father was a lawyer. I began to form relations with Jenny von Westphalen, who would later become my wife. Her father, whom I looked up to, heavily influenced me in the realms of politics as well as literature.
My father moved me out of the University of Bonn to the University of Berlin, where I began to focus on Hegelianism. The concept behind Hegelianism was “the rational alone is real”. Ludwig Feuerbach, who was a Hegelian like myself, influenced me into this ideology. I found great intrigue from the dialect spoken by Hegel however; I constantly questioned the idea of this philosophy. I began to form my own hypothesis that the base of reality is in the economics. Contrary to the focus of Heigel’s philosophy, I saw that civil society was what needed concentration most rather than on the state in order to attempt to understand the …show more content…
I fled to Brussels, where I worked on a piece, which went against idealistic socialism. I argued the nature of the individual and how it is heavily dependent on the material conditions, through my work The German Ideology. I predicted the collapse of industrial capitalism and as a result, the furthering of communism. I joined the Communism League, which was focused in London. With The Communist Manifesto, I had hoped to inspire a social revolution across Europe. To my pleasure, several revolutions had broken out throughout Europe in 1848. This work was the one to turn heads. It indicates that laws of history would inevitably lead to the power of the working class. It not only does this, but it sets communism apart from the other movements – it suggests social reform while outlining the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Most importantly, it encouraged the workers to come together in order to revolt against the