In order to understand a person’s way of thinking and attitudes towards society, one must first examine the environment that person grew up in, and the events and the people who influenced that person. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and examine the life of the most influential thinker in Sociology history, Karl Marx. By analyzing the environment Marx grew up, the events that occurred during his life, and the people around him who influenced him, we will understand his ideas and how they, according to Marx, predicted the future of society. Marx, was born in 1818 in Trier, Prussia in what today is Germany. Karl Marx focused on explaining the relationship of classes and how can it be changed. He devoted his life to fighting against capitalism
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Heinrich Marx noticed something special about his son a “sharp and lucid intelligence he combined with a stubborn and domineering temper, a truculent love of independence, exceptional emotional restraint, and overall a colossal, ungovernable intellectual appetite” . Because of this, he often requested Karl to reduce his effervescent personality that would according to him cause him trouble. Heinrich believed that people were rational beings who by nature were good. According to him unnatural barriers, such as religion, feudal nobility, political, and racial obstacles, were to be removed so that these natural qualities humans would govern and all men would be socially equal. He also believed that society would evolve until reaching the ideal aforementioned society where all citizens would be equal. Although Karl Marx did not believe in the notion of the metaphysics or spiritual philosophy, Marx believed that society evolves and indisputable it …show more content…
Her relationship with Karl Marx was somewhat distant mostly because she did not share the intellectual appetite he had. Herrietta’s dedication and passion were towards the wellbeing and preservation of her family. When she wrote to Karl, she would focus on his hygiene and nutrition. When Karl left home his relationship with his mother would become distant and cold. One could say that he in a way detested his mother. In a letter he wrote to his life-long friend Engel to express his condolences for Engels’ lover death, Marx expressed how he would have wanted his mother, who had ‘her fair share of life’ to have died instead of Engels’
Heinrich Marx noticed something special about his son a “sharp and lucid intelligence he combined with a stubborn and domineering temper, a truculent love of independence, exceptional emotional restraint, and overall a colossal, ungovernable intellectual appetite” . Because of this, he often requested Karl to reduce his effervescent personality that would according to him cause him trouble. Heinrich believed that people were rational beings who by nature were good. According to him unnatural barriers, such as religion, feudal nobility, political, and racial obstacles, were to be removed so that these natural qualities humans would govern and all men would be socially equal. He also believed that society would evolve until reaching the ideal aforementioned society where all citizens would be equal. Although Karl Marx did not believe in the notion of the metaphysics or spiritual philosophy, Marx believed that society evolves and indisputable it …show more content…
Her relationship with Karl Marx was somewhat distant mostly because she did not share the intellectual appetite he had. Herrietta’s dedication and passion were towards the wellbeing and preservation of her family. When she wrote to Karl, she would focus on his hygiene and nutrition. When Karl left home his relationship with his mother would become distant and cold. One could say that he in a way detested his mother. In a letter he wrote to his life-long friend Engel to express his condolences for Engels’ lover death, Marx expressed how he would have wanted his mother, who had ‘her fair share of life’ to have died instead of Engels’