Karl Marx

Marx’s ultimate religious motivation was to be equal to the creator, or essentially, be his own god. This is the root of Marxism, but also the most critiqued part because for most people it is incomprehensible. ” (Carmichael, 1967, 246) During his own time, Karl Marx participated in democratic demonstrations and organizations, which influenced the course of Europe politically and economically during the 19th century. He moved to Brussels where he and Engels joined the Communist League. His father described him as “insatiable in his quest for information. Karl, instead, preferred the company of his father and his father’s friends. As an adolescent, what Karl longed most for in his later life was distinction in the world of thought. Marx had a vision of a perfect society, and he was determined to make it come true, in his lifetime or not.

As a child, Marx was hard working, attentive and well behaved. He showed no inner warmth towards other children, he did not feel a need for relations with people his own age. He lived in London for almost 15 years being entirely supported by Engels. Essentially, a person cannot be independent if they are a creation of a personal god, he then lives “by grace of another. His philosophical system is often called dialectical materialism.