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Karl Marx

1818–1883

Also known as: Marx, मार्क्स, कार्ल मार्क्स

How Karl Marx is discussed in this archive

Authored 5 works in the archive.

Referenced in 22 other works — including National Priorities for 1970 , समस्याएँ भारत की , and ECONOMIC THINKING OF LORD KEYNES .

In MUTUAL FUNDS AND OFFSHORE FUNDS IN INDIA : Marx anchors Dave's autobiographical conversion narrative — named as part of the 1950s intellectual diet (Marx, Soviet planning, Mahalanobis model) that he was raised on before turning toward free enterprise.

In समस्याएँ भारत की : Marx appears twice — first as the inheritor of the Marxist analytic tradition Joshi indicts for treating agriculture as subordinate to industry, then as a thinker Joshi defends in his own right against Indian left-wing critics who use Marxist authority to attack Shetkari Sanghatana.

In Industrial Relations : Naval Tata invokes Marx via V.

In ECONOMIC THINKING OF LORD KEYNES : Marx is invoked both as part of the classical-economist tradition Dillard uses to contextualise Keynes, and as the target of Keynes's open hostility — Keynes dismissed Capital as 'an obsolete textbook'.

In Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative : Masani turns Marx ironically against the Congress: the observation that property-owners are free is repurposed to attack abolitionist socialism, an inversion that frames property as a precondition for liberty.

By Karl Marx (5)

In ThePrint (5)

Mentioned in (30)

Primary works (18)

  • MUTUAL FUNDS AND OFFSHORE FUNDS IN INDIA · 1991
    • "Dave was raised on Marx, Soviet planning and the Mahalanobis model, and saw free enterprise as the cause of India's problems rather than the cure" — Marx named as one of the formative influences Dave later repudiated
  • SPIRIT OF FREE ENTERPRISE · 1991
  • समस्याएँ भारत की · 1988
    • "the Marxist and mainstream development-economics traditions alike treat agriculture as subordinate to industry, thereby legitimising the continued suppression of farm prices" — Essay 2 indicts the Marxist tradition for the same agrarian extractivism Joshi attacks in mainstream economics
    • "Marx himself — who is invoked by the organisation's left-wing detractors — has yet to receive recognition from the Indian establishment for his analysis of exploitation" — Essay 6 turns the tables on Joshi's left-wing critics by claiming Marx's exploitation analysis as more sympathetic to the Shetkari cause than to its detractors
  • Industrial Relations · 1979
    • "Dr. V. M. Dandekar's critique of the bankmen's strike invoking Karl Marx and social justice" — used to defuse the union charge of anti-labour bias by mobilising socialist authority against strike tactics
  • PLURALISM & MIXED ECONOMY — A BASIS FOR CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS · 1978
  • Socialism and Poverty · 1970
  • ECONOMIC THINKING OF LORD KEYNES · 1968
    • "Dillard situates Keynes alongside Adam Smith, Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx and Alfred Marshall as a classical-rank figure" — Marx placed in the classical tradition from which Keynes emerged
    • "Dillard records Keynes' open hostility to Marxism — calling Capital 'an obsolete textbook'" — Keynes's rejection of Marxism as a key strand in Dillard's argument that Keynes was not a socialist
  • Property Rights under the Constitution · 1968
  • Congress Misrule and the Swatantra Alternative · 1966
    • "Karl Marx is cited—ironically—for the observation that those who own property are free, a point Masani turns against the Congress logic of abolition." — Marx is weaponised against socialist abolition of property via his own dictum on property and freedom
  • Economy and Efficiency in Public Administration in India · 1963
  • NATIONALISATION AT THE CROSSROADS · 1962
    • "Desai opens by historicising Marx: when Das Capital was written, labour had no right to organise or vote, parliamentary democracy was a fiction, and the welfare state did not yet exist" — Desai frames Marx as a 19th-century thinker whose premises have been overtaken by 20th-century institutional change
    • "Historicises Marx by arguing that adult franchise, trade unionism, welfare-state legislation and labour parties winning power at the ballot box have dissolved the 19th-century premise that nationalisation is the only escape from capitalist exploitation." — key-point restatement of the opening Marx-historicisation move
  • GROW MORE VOTES · 1960
  • The Indian Libertarian · 1960
    • "S. K. G. Rajan dismisses Marx as an economist but credits him as a social thinker whose writings exposed the misuse of power by capitalists" — Rationalist Supplement aside; splits Marx's economic from his social writings
  • ENLIST CO-OPERATION OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE · 1959
    • "The capitalism Karl Marx attacked, on his reading, no longer exists in the older democracies; socialism has receded to the background." — Rama Rau uses Marx's historical critique to defuse contemporary socialist arguments
  • GRAVE DANGERS OF STATE TRADING IN FOODGRAINS · 1959
  • …and 3 more

Opinion pieces (1)

  • Encoding Privacy in a Digital World
    • "She has been surviving on Amartya Sen, Fukoyama and Karl Marx not only for the sheer joy of critiquing, analyzing and learning their works but to see how economics and developmental policies could work in tandem." — author bio at the end of the essay; Marx listed among the author's formative thinkers

Excerpts (11)

  • A Dialogue Between Socrates And Lenin
    • "As my master Marx taught, there is but one evil: the exploitation of man by man." — In Seervai's fictional dialogue, Lenin credits Marx's doctrine as the basis for Communist justice theory — used to expose the fallacy of Leninist coercion
  • Dangerous Counter Philosophy - Piloo Mody
    • "Harold Laski on the other hand, under the lure of Marx and the Soviet revolution, is of the opinion that change is inherently contrary to the nature of a liberal democracy" — Marx's influence on Laski is cited to identify the source of the anti-liberal democratic pessimism Mody is arguing against
  • De-Stalinisation Versus Communism
    • "Marx's advocacy of violent class struggle translated into the Bolshevik revolution to the dictatorship of the single party in the name of the proletariat." — Marx's theory is traced as the origin point of a causal chain leading inevitably to Stalinist dictatorship
  • Democracy Means Bread And Freedom
    • "Harold Laski on the other hand, under the lure of Marx and the Soviet revolution, is of the opinion that change is inherently contrary to the nature of liberal democracy" — Marx's influence on Laski's structural pessimism about democracy is identified as the source of the counter-argument Mody must refute
  • The Mission of Libertarianism
    • "whom Karl Marx called the bourgeoisie) side streams of what may be roughly called “socialist thought” sprung up seeking " — first introduction of Marx as the source of collectivist ideology
    • "most successful of these trends was that represented by Karl Marx, partly because he founded the International Working Men’s Movem" — identifies Marx as the dominant socialist thinker whose influence the author contests
  • Marx and Theory of Value
    • "Marx’s critique of capitalism is based on the idea that there is no harmony of interests as believed by classical economists." — positions Marx as the foundational socialist thinker whose theory is under examination
    • "Marx's theory of surplus-value is not the result of unbiased research." — opening claim framing the article's thesis about Marx's method
  • National Priorities for 1970
    • "It is only through control over one's physical environment that, to some extent, one is able to operate as a free man, as Karl Marx said." — Masani concedes a Marxist premise to invert the conclusion
    • "Instead of saying that everyone must therefore have property so that everyone may be free, he came to the conclusion that everyone must be deprived of property!" — Masani's signature inversion of Marx's logic — the property-as-liberty argument
  • Socialism or State Capitalism
    • "the nature of which has undergone a great change since Karl Marx expounded his theory." — Marx named as the originator of the socialist theory whose practical development the essay analyses
    • "Stalin wanted to make dictatorship absolute and totalitarian and, therefore, made State Capitalism the exclusive form of economic development in the USSR" — essay traces how Stalin's state capitalism diverged from Marx's original theory
  • THE MISSION OF LIBERTARIANISM
    • "While outlining the rise of Karl Marx's labour theory of value, the author revisits theories of labour rooted in individualism." — Marx identified as the intellectual foil against which the essay's libertarian vision is developed
    • "The individualist philosophy of John Stuart Mill and his followers which guided liberal democracy is today eclipsed by the communist collectivism of Karl Marx" — Marx's collectivism presented as the dominant force that libertarianism must displace
  • The Wisdom of the Rulers
    • "today communism has built itself on the theories of Karl Marx" — comparison of communist dogma to Catholic theology, both demanding unquestioning loyalty from their adherents
    • "This is the historical and economic determinism of Karl Marx" — summary of Marxist dialectical materialism as the communists' governing philosophy