rough a necessary series of modes of production and culminating in communism. He drew his economic thought from his labor theory of value. This theory included the analysis that capitalist profit would extract surplus value from the exploited proletariat. In his analysis of history and economics, he predicted the inevitable breakdown of capitalism for economic reasons and its replacement by communism. He, however, did not reveal or include details on the nature of communism. He predicted that it was to come through historical processes rather than realizing some moral ideal (Woolf).
             Karl Marx wrote that "philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it (Bandyopadhyay 2001)." He was in the same league as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, who believed that the metaphysical pretensions of philosophy should be done away with in favor of something more fundamental, such as power, being, or the historical conditions of man. Marx offered a practical philosophy and a means to transform the world. Marx opposed the German philosophy of his day, which assumed that nature and society could not be changed. He, instead, insisted that economic, social, and political life was in the process of transformation. One dominant institution would rise and be challenged by a succeeding one. Through this series of challenges and conflicts, new synthesis and a new power would evolve. He foresaw that the new bourgeoisie, the industrialists, for example, would take power from the old landed aristocracy, and a new synthesis, capitalism, would be achieved. This new synthesis would, in turn, be challenged by
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