By AFPMore by this AuthorBERLIN,Karl Marx's work "can be explained in five minutes, five hours, in five years or in a half century," wrote French political thinker Raymond Aron. Here are five core ideas of the influential and highly divisive German thinker, on the 200th anniversary of Marx's birthday. 'Class struggle'"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle," says the Communist Manifesto, co-written with Friedrich Engels and published in 1848. CommunismMarx and Engels wrote the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" in 1848, at a time of revolutionary turmoil in Europe. For Marx, the goal was the conquest of political power by workers, the abolition of private property, and the eventual establishment of a classless and stateless communist society.

Source: Daily Nation May 04, 2018 03:22 UTC