Day of the Dead -- Diego Rivera

 

Day of the Dead -- Diego Rivera

Instructions for living a life

 

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

Karl Marx born May 5,1818

 

Karl Marx FRSA[1]
Photograph of Marx taken by John Mayall in 1875
Born	Karl Heinrich Marx 5 May 1818 Trier, Prussia, German Confederation
Died	14 March 1883 (aged 64) London, England
Burial place	17 March 1883, Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London
Nationality	Prussian (1818–1845) Stateless (after 1845)
Education	University of Bonn University of Berlin University of Jena (PhD, 1841)[2]
Political party	Communist Correspondence Committee (until 1847) Communist League (1847–1852) International Workingmen's Association (1864–1872)
Spouse(s)	Jenny von Westphalen ​ ​ (m. 1843; died 1881)​
Children	7, including Jenny, Laura and Eleanor
Parents	Heinrich Marx (father) Henriette Pressburg (mother)
Relatives	Louise Juta (sister) Jean Longuet (grandson)
Philosophy career
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Marxism
Thesis	Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie (The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature) (1841)
Doctoral advisor	Bruno Bauer
Main interests	Philosophy economics history politics
Notable ideas	Marxist terminology, value form, contributions to dialectics and the marxian critique of political economy, class conflict, alienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history
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Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

PHILOSOPHY DEFINED

 

"Philosophy is indeed just the doctrine that is meant to liberate man from an infinite number of finite purposes and goals, and to make him indifferent to them such that it is indeed all the same to him whether such things are or not."

G. W. F. Hegel

"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living." 

Thich Nhat Hanh