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Karl Marx: Old Major



__**Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) **__
 * Born in Trier, Prussia (present-day Germany)
 * His family was Jewish, though converted to Christianity becuase of anti-Jewish laws
 * Studied law in school, though switched interests to philosophy
 * Worked in journalism, which casued his involvement in social and political issues
 * Attends many socialist meetings, learns about the struggle of the German working class
 * Adopts communist ideals which are shown in his writing
 * Forced to stop writing in Prussia
 * Moved to Paris, but was kicked out of France
 * Moved to Brussels, Belgium, but was kicked out due to the 1848 revolutions
 * Moved to London, where he spent the rest of his life
 * Died and Buried in London, England

__Parallels between Old Major and Karl Marx __
 * = Old Major ||= <span style="color: #801e2b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Karl Marx ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Spoke of a possible better way of life for animals and a system of living called animalism ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wrote of communism, a social, ecomomic and political system ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dreamed of a revolution where animals took over Man ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Theorized of a revolution where communism would replace capitalism ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious." (Orwell, 1946) - pg. 7 ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Message of communism was remembered and used to later rebel and create the Soviet Union. Still remembered today for thoughts on communism. ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ideals were later twisted by Napoleon ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ideals were later twisted by Stalin ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Died before the revolution took place ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lived and died before the communist revolutions took place throughout Europe ||

__<span style="color: #801e2b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Similarities in philosophies __


 * = <span style="color: #801e2b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Old Major ||= <span style="color: #801e2b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Karl Marx ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"We are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those who are capable of it are forced to work" (Orwell, 1964) - pg. 5 ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work" (Marx & Engels, 1848) ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"And the very instant that our usefulness has come to and we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty" (Orwell, 1964) - pg. 5 ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital" (Marx & Engels, 1848) ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Nearly the whole of our Produce is stolen from us by human beings" (Orwell, 1964) - pg. 6 ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Profit in a capitalist economy is due to the exploitation of the working class ||
 * = <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"Get rid of man, and the produce of our labor would be our own" (Orwell, 1964) - pg. 7 ||= <span style="color: #3b3bbf; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">"a countries economy should be in the hands of the people as a whole and that every person should recieve an equal share of that economy's wealth" (Kort, 1992) ||

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">References

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(2010). Karl Heinrich Marx - Biography. Retrieved From [].

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kort, M. (1992). The rise and fall of the Soviet Union. United States of America: Franklin Watts Inc.

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Marx, K, & Engels. (1848). Communist Manifesto. Retrieved from <span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[].

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Orwell, G. (1946). Animal Farm. United States of America: McDougal Littell.

<span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wolf, J. (2010). Karl Marx. Retrieved from [].