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206 years ago on May 5, Karl Marx, the greatest thinker of mankind, was born. Marx's most important merit is the discovery of the law of development of human history. "The simple fact that men must eat, drink, have lodgings, and clothe themselves before being able to engage in politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that, consequently, the production of the immediate material means of subsistence, and thus each stage of economic development of a people or epoch, form the basis on which the institutions of state, the legal views, the arts, and even the religious conceptions of given people develop, and from which they must therefore be explained - and not vice versa, as has been done hitherto..." [1]. Marx was the greatest scientist and in every field he explored he was bound to make discoveries.
But Marx was above all a revolutionary for whom theory was always inseparable from practice. He participated in one way or another in the destruction of capitalist society and the state institutions it had created. The liberation of the modern proletariat, to whom he first gave consciousness of its own situation and its needs, the realization of the conditions of its emancipation, was in reality his life's vocation.
The crowning achievement of his struggle was the creation of the great International Workers' Association, the First International. If we say briefly about the whole theory of Karl Marx - it is the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the building of a classless society. Later on, another great genius, Vladimir Lenin, developed this doctrine, enriching its content with the summarized experience of the entire recent development of the proletarian revolution.
In order to better understand who Marx was and the meaning of his theory, we recommend Lenin's short work "Karl Marx". In it Lenin gave a summary of the whole theory of Marxism. This brilliant work we recommend to read or reread on the birthday of the great scientist, thinker and revolutionary - Karl Marx.
But Marx was above all a revolutionary for whom theory was always inseparable from practice. He participated in one way or another in the destruction of capitalist society and the state institutions it had created. The liberation of the modern proletariat, to whom he first gave consciousness of its own situation and its needs, the realization of the conditions of its emancipation, was in reality his life's vocation.
The crowning achievement of his struggle was the creation of the great International Workers' Association, the First International. If we say briefly about the whole theory of Karl Marx - it is the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the building of a classless society. Later on, another great genius, Vladimir Lenin, developed this doctrine, enriching its content with the summarized experience of the entire recent development of the proletarian revolution.
In order to better understand who Marx was and the meaning of his theory, we recommend Lenin's short work "Karl Marx". In it Lenin gave a summary of the whole theory of Marxism. This brilliant work we recommend to read or reread on the birthday of the great scientist, thinker and revolutionary - Karl Marx.
