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Karl Marx

1818 – 1883 · Germany · Political Economy, Philosophy

Das Kapital made class, capital and crisis the permanent grammar of economic argument.

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Who shaped Karl Marx, and who they shaped

Inherited from3

  • Adam Smith

    1723 – 1790 · Economics, Philosophy

    Capital opens as a critique of the labour theory of value Smith and Ricardo bequeathed.

  • David Ricardo

    1772 – 1823 · Economics, Political Economy

    Ricardian value theory is the apparatus Marx turns against capital.

  • G. W. F. Hegel

    1770 – 1831 · Philosophy

    Marx inverts the dialectic: material conditions, not spirit, move history.

Passed the work to6

  • Amílcar Cabral

    1924 – 1973 · Philosophy, History

    Cabral's class analysis of the colonial economy is Marxist method turned to Guinea-Bissau.

  • Friedrich Engels

    1820 – 1895 · Political Economy, History

    Their collaboration produced the Manifesto and the edition of Capital after Marx's death.

  • Ho Chi Minh

    1890 – 1969 · Philosophy, History

    Leninist anti-colonialism is the form Marx's theory took in Vietnam.

  • Kwame Nkrumah

    1909 – 1972 · Politics, Political Economy

    Neo-Colonialism applies Marxist analysis of capital to postcolonial Africa.

  • Max Weber

    1864 – 1920 · Political Economy, History

    The Protestant Ethic answers historical materialism with the causal weight of belief.

  • Thomas Piketty

    1971 · Economics, Political Economy

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century measures the distributional claim Marx argued.

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