Petra Wahyu Utama

Marxism : The  Root of Comunism A. The Ideas of Karl Marx As a rebellious student at the University of Berlin, Karl Marx (1818-1883) assosiated with radical students and professors and came under the spell of the religious moderenist of Germany who denied the deity of Christ and questioned the authority of the Bible. although born into Jewish Family that later converted to Lutheranism, Marx came to despise both Judaism and Christianity and throughout his life exhibited a violent hatred for God and humanity. History as class struggle. Marx took special interest in the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel whose dialectical reasoning (thesis+ antithesis= Synthesis). he applied to History. Marx viewed history as a record of class struggle between the "Haves" (wealthy) and the "Have Nots" (poor) and "he blamed ownership of private property as the source of the conflict." Marx's adaptation of Hegel's dialectical reasoning is often called dialectical ma