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Karl Marx

1818–1883

Also known as: Marx, मार्क्स, कार्ल मार्क्स

How Karl Marx is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 23 other works , including National Priorities for 1970 , IL Explainer - Ep 4 | Socialism Reconsidered by Minoo Masani , and समस्याएँ भारत की .

In IL Explainer - Ep 4 | Socialism Reconsidered by Minoo Masani : Marx is invoked through repeated references to 'Marxist socialism' as the ideological framework whose assumptions Masani is critiquing.

In MUTUAL FUNDS AND OFFSHORE FUNDS IN INDIA : Marx anchors Dave's autobiographical conversion narrative — named as part of the 1950s intellectual diet (Marx, Soviet planning, Mahalanobis model) that he was raised on before turning toward free enterprise.

In समस्याएँ भारत की : Marx appears twice — first as the inheritor of the Marxist analytic tradition Joshi indicts for treating agriculture as subordinate to industry, then as a thinker Joshi defends in his own right against Indian left-wing critics who use Marxist authority to attack Shetkari Sanghatana.

In Industrial Relations : Naval Tata invokes Marx via V.

In ECONOMIC THINKING OF LORD KEYNES : Marx is invoked both as part of the classical-economist tradition Dillard uses to contextualise Keynes, and as the target of Keynes's open hostility — Keynes dismissed Capital as 'an obsolete textbook'.

Mentioned in (151)

Primary works (134)

Opinion pieces (1)

  • Encoding Privacy in a Digital World
    • "She has been surviving on Amartya Sen, Fukoyama and Karl Marx not only for the sheer joy of critiquing, analyzing and learning their works but to see how economics and developmental policies could work in tandem." · author bio at the end of the essay; Marx listed among the author's formative thinkers

Excerpts (11)

  • A Dialogue Between Socrates And Lenin
    • "As my master Marx taught, there is but one evil: the exploitation of man by man." · In Seervai's fictional dialogue, Lenin credits Marx's doctrine as the basis for Communist justice theory — used to expose the fallacy of Leninist coercion
  • De-Stalinisation Versus Communism
    • "Marx's advocacy of violent class struggle translated into the Bolshevik revolution to the dictatorship of the single party in the name of the proletariat." · Marx's theory is traced as the origin point of a causal chain leading inevitably to Stalinist dictatorship
  • Dangerous Counter Philosophy - Piloo Mody
    • "Harold Laski on the other hand, under the lure of Marx and the Soviet revolution, is of the opinion that change is inherently contrary to the nature of a liberal democracy" · Marx's influence on Laski is cited to identify the source of the anti-liberal democratic pessimism Mody is arguing against
  • Democracy Means Bread And Freedom
    • "Harold Laski on the other hand, under the lure of Marx and the Soviet revolution, is of the opinion that change is inherently contrary to the nature of liberal democracy" · Marx's influence on Laski's structural pessimism about democracy is identified as the source of the counter-argument Mody must refute
  • The Mission of Libertarianism
    • "whom Karl Marx called the bourgeoisie) side streams of what may be roughly called “socialist thought” sprung up seeking " · first introduction of Marx as the source of collectivist ideology
    • "most successful of these trends was that represented by Karl Marx, partly because he founded the International Working Men’s Movem" · identifies Marx as the dominant socialist thinker whose influence the author contests
  • Marx and Theory of Value
    • "Marx’s critique of capitalism is based on the idea that there is no harmony of interests as believed by classical economists." · positions Marx as the foundational socialist thinker whose theory is under examination
    • "Marx's theory of surplus-value is not the result of unbiased research." · opening claim framing the article's thesis about Marx's method
  • National Priorities for 1970
    • "It is only through control over one's physical environment that, to some extent, one is able to operate as a free man, as Karl Marx said." · Masani concedes a Marxist premise to invert the conclusion
    • "Instead of saying that everyone must therefore have property so that everyone may be free, he came to the conclusion that everyone must be deprived of property!" · Masani's signature inversion of Marx's logic — the property-as-liberty argument
  • Socialism or State Capitalism
    • "the nature of which has undergone a great change since Karl Marx expounded his theory." · Marx named as the originator of the socialist theory whose practical development the essay analyses
    • "Stalin wanted to make dictatorship absolute and totalitarian and, therefore, made State Capitalism the exclusive form of economic development in the USSR" · essay traces how Stalin's state capitalism diverged from Marx's original theory
  • THE MISSION OF LIBERTARIANISM
    • "While outlining the rise of Karl Marx's labour theory of value, the author revisits theories of labour rooted in individualism." · Marx identified as the intellectual foil against which the essay's libertarian vision is developed
    • "The individualist philosophy of John Stuart Mill and his followers which guided liberal democracy is today eclipsed by the communist collectivism of Karl Marx" · Marx's collectivism presented as the dominant force that libertarianism must displace
  • The Wisdom of the Rulers
    • "today communism has built itself on the theories of Karl Marx" · comparison of communist dogma to Catholic theology, both demanding unquestioning loyalty from their adherents
    • "This is the historical and economic determinism of Karl Marx" · summary of Marxist dialectical materialism as the communists' governing philosophy

In ThePrint (5)