He became a journalist, and eventually became acting editor of a liberal newspaper in the city of Cologne, the largest city in the Rhineland, Rheinische Zeitung, we might translate that into English as the Rhineland News. He did what a lot of young men in Germany did during the early 1840s who had radical political opinions and were finding it hard to get government jobs, a typical career path for someone who went to the university back then in Germany was he got into journalism. And that created a profound personal crisis for Marx because of course he had no way to earn a living, which was a particular problem because he was engaged to a young woman, Jenny von Westphalen, but could not marry her without a job. Marx became profoundly influenced by these Young Hegelians, particularly a man named Bruno Bauer who became his patron, wrote a doctoral dissertation about ancient Greek atheists and was all set to have a career as a professor of philosophy and theology, or maybe I should say anti-theology, until his mentor Bruno Bauer was fired by the Prussian government for being an atheist. These were followers of the great philosopher GWF Hegel who had taken Hegel's ideas and twisted them in a radical atheistic direction.
There in Berlin, Marx was supposed to be studying law to follow in his father's footsteps, instead fell in with a group of philosophical radicals, the Young Hegelians. Jonathan Sperber: After a year basically drinking and carousing at the university in Bonn in the Rhineland, Heinrich sent Karl to study at the University of Berlin which was rather a more serious and sober atmosphere, probably the leading institution of higher learning in central Europe at the time. Professor Jonathan Sperber is a historian at the University of Missouri.
KARL MARKX STUDIED AUSTRALIA SERIES
His writings inspired the Russian Revolution, and as part of Radio National's series on its centenary, Rear Vision looks at Marx, the man and his ideas.īorn into a liberal, prosperous middleclass family in what was then Prussia, Marx began his university studies in Bonn in 1835. Keri Phillips: An ABC report from March 1983, the centenary of the death of Karl Marx economist, sociologist, philosopher, political theorist and radical socialist. They broke into a rough version of the international anthem of the left. A small group of socialists and Communists were gathered at the graveside. Journalist : One hundred years ago Karl Marx died in Britain and was buried at the Highgate Cemetery in London, and in tepid spring sunshine a small but constant stream of visitors arrived at the spot, marked by a two-metre high likeness of the father of communism and, whatever your views of his philosophies, one of history's most remarkable political thinkers. Today, the story of the revolutionary thinker, Karl Marx. Keri Phillips: Hello, this is Rear Vision.
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