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is a man whose grave is a communist plot.

is concerned with a view of man whereby man suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought whereby he ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960.

taught us that men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Marx’s phrase: "Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive."

is of the belief that he had turned Hegel on his head by emphasizing matter rather than spirit.

Philosophers in the idealist tradition may be more likely to put forward a determined end to history, for the tradition does not emphasize action in the real world as the empirical tradition does. Experience is the great relativizer and compromiser. Thus, Marx believed he had turned Hegel on his head by emphasizing matter rather than spirit. Marx did not hold that he had abandoned the form of Hegel’s thought, which, in turn, Hegel received in considerable part from Kant.

is a great man. He predicted everything but Marxism.

a great man. He predicted everything but Marxism.

did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

showed that you can't have socialism or democracy or social revolution until you are ready for them, and that you can't have one without the others.

Socialism was an idea before Marx. Democracy was an idea before Marx. Social revolution was an idea before Marx. What he showed was that you can't have any of the above until you are ready for them, and that you can't have one without the others.

is not a marxist, just as jesus was not a christian.

was not a marxist, just as jesus was not a christian.

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Karl Marx