On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:39 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/461545.stm
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> Marx the millennium's 'greatest thinker'
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> Karl Marx: Controversial revolutionary ideas
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> Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll to
> find the greatest thinker of the millennium.
>
> The nineteenth century writer won September's vote with a clear
> margin, pushing Albert Einstein, who had led for most of the month,
> into second place.
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> Millennium
> The top 10 included philosophers Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes as
> well as twentieth century scientist Stephen Hawking.
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> The vote was the ninth of BBC News Online's monthly Your Millennium
> series. In October you can vote for the greatest explorer of the last
> thousand years.
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> To inspire you, two record-breaking British explorers, Brian Jones and
> David Hempleman-Adams, have contributed their personal top-10 lists.
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> Karl Marx is probably the most influential socialist thinker to emerge
> in the nineteenth century and one of the founders of communism.
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> Although dictatorships throughout the twentieth century have distorted
> his original ideas, his work as a philosopher, social scientist,
> historian and a revolutionary is respected by academics today.
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> Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was born into a middle-class family in
> Germany, but he became a revolutionary in Paris, Brussels and London.
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> He met the like-minded Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) in France.
> Together they wrote The Communist Manifesto, which outlined the theory
> of the class struggle. Marx was exiled from Paris and Brussels for his
> revolutionary activities and settled in London where he lived until
> his death.
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> Amongst Marx's other influential works are the Economic and
> Philosophical Manuscripts, which remained unpublished until the 1930s,
> and the monumental work Das Kapital.
>
> BBC News Online readers from across the world took part in the millennium
> poll.
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> Dag Thoresen from Norway, said: "Karl Marx has inspired thousands of
> liberation struggles. He was the father of modern political thinking."
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> And Jyotsna Kapur from the USA said: "Marx analysed best the working
> of capitalism. Given that that is the system that characterises the
> world at the end of the twentieth century his work is as relevant to
> understanding the world we live in as it was for understanding the
> nineteenth century."
>
> Click here to see the full results of September's vote.
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