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| | Karl Marx Article, KarlMarx Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Although Marx addressed many issues in his career asa journalist and philosopher, he is most famous for his analysis of history interms of class conflict, summed up in his assertion that, "The interests of capitalists and wage-laborers are diametrically opposed toeach other." [1] His writings formed the basisof later Communist and socialist movements. |
 | | Marx instead submitted his dissertation, which compared theatomic theories of Democritus and Epicurus, to the University of Jena in 1840, where it was accepted. |
 | | Marx described thisloss in terms of commodity fetishism, in which people come to believe that it is the very things that they produce that arepowerful, and the sources of power and creativity, rather than people themselves. |
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