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Karl (Hein·rich) [kahrl hahyn-rik; German kahrl hahyn-rikh], /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/, 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
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Marx earlier reported on the existence of the little-known regional law enforcement working group that receives federal funding for police gear.
Morning Report: Law Enforcement Is Spending on ‘Predictive Policing’ | Voice of San Diego | February 2, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIn 2020, we learned from Marx’s reporting that the project was funded in part with federal anti-poverty dollars and that it wasn’t producing environmental and traffic data as promised.
She also read Marx, and her associations with all of these far-left groups landed her on the radar of the FBI, which monitored her for ties to the Communist Party.
Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don't Learn in School | Video by Arpita Aneja | December 15, 2020 | Time“When it comes to the terms Faulconer set for himself on policing and public safety — predominantly hiring, pay and retention, which were seen as worthy causes at the time even among progressives — he was largely successful,” Marx writes.
Morning Report: Faulconer Mostly Silent as Policing Issues Blew Up | Voice of San Diego | December 8, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoAs Marx reported, a Gaspar loss means not one, but two of Ikhrata’s chief critics would no longer be on the board.
Politics Report: Who Will Get the Midway Rose? | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | August 15, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMarx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.
The Stacks: Robin Williams, More Than A Shtick Figure | Joe Morgenstern | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was the end of history, all right—just not the one Marx and his mid-century champions had expected.
A choice Johnson says he made channeling a Harpo Marx type character, and not a “mysterious Oriental.”
‘Star Wars’ Director Rian Johnson May Bring Balance to the Force | Rich Goldstein | June 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe had tried to make it a political, revolutionary society; and when he found himself defeated by Marx' opposition, he retired.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingWhile with him moral and spiritual phenomena are the fundamental facts, Marx builds his system on material phenomena.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingMarx deduced from his economic studies a confident and detailed prophecy of economic development.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingFourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare | Leo TolstoyThis is the discovery of Karl Marx which is known as the scientific or materialistic interpretation of history.
Communism and Christianism | William Montgomery Brown
British Dictionary definitions for Marx
/ (mɑːks) /
Karl (karl). 1818–83, German founder of modern communism, in England from 1849. With Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). He developed his theories of the class struggle and the economics of capitalism in Das Kapital (1867; 1885; 1895). He was one of the founders of the International Workingmen's Association (First International) (1864)
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