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NOTES FROM THEORY PACKET KARL MARX • studied law, philosophy, and history • lifelong collaboration w/ Friedrich Engels. • develop a communist ideology. • 1848 produced Communist Manifesto: urging workers to rise and take over the means of production for the exploiting capitalist class. • 1864 founded First International: purpose to unite workers everywhere in a revolutionary struggle. • Suggested a new way of looking at social life and history: he saw material and economic conditions as a responsible for the shaping of our values, morality, attitudes, and political institutions. • Singled out property relations to the key element and the exploitation of “have-nots” by the “haves” to be at the heart of liberal capitalism. • Capital first pub. 1867, 2nd and 3rd by Engels in 1885 and 1894. • Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848 written at the request of a small group of radicals: the Communist League. JOHN STUART MILL �