Karl Marx

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part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved,
presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included
some politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.

Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's
philosophy and to his "adherence to the Young Hegelians." Hegel's
philosophy was crucial to the development of his own ideas and theories.
Upon his first introduction to Hegel's beliefs, Marx felt a repugnance and
wrote his father that when he felt sick, it was partially "from intense
vexation at having to make an idol of a view [he] detested." The Hegelian
doctrines exerted considerable pressure in the "revolutionary student
culture" that Marx was immersed in, however, and Marx eventually joined a
society called the Doctor Club, involved mainly in the "new literary and
philosophical movement" who's chief figure was Bruno Bauer, a lecturer ...

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to Paris to
study "French Communism." In June of 1843, he was married to Jenny Von
Westphalen, an attractive girl, four years older than Marx, who came from a
prestigious family of both military and administrative distinction.
Although many of the members of the Von Westphalen family were opposed to
the marriage, Jenny's father favored Marx. In Paris, Marx became
acquainted with the Communistic views of French workmen. Although he
thought that the ideas of the workmen were "utterly crude and
unintelligent," he admired their camaraderie. He later wrote an article
entitled "Toward the Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right" from
which comes the famous quote that religion is the ...

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