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“Marx’s political philosophy is a mixture of German Philosophy, French Politics and British economics.” Do you agree?  

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"Marx's political philosophy is a mixture of German Philosophy, French Politics and British economics." Do you agree? Marxism has certainly been influenced by German philosophers like Hegel and French politics like the example of the French revolution, French politics like the example of the French revolution and he has studied the capitalism of British economics. A synthesis of all these elements produces contradictions and uncertainties in the very large and complicated ideology of Marxism. Marx's dialectical philosophy was derived from George Hegel's version of the dialectic. Hegel was an idealist, his believed that the metaphysical progress of man's collective consciousness to understand itself was reflected in the sequential reality of history. This model begins with an existing element, or thesis, with contradictions inherent to its structure. These contradictions unwittingly create the thesis' direct opposite, or antithesis, bringing about a period of conflict between the two. The new element, or...

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