Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl Marx

The German Ideology

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Topic

Philosophy Changing the world

Author

Karl Marx

Genre

Historical literature

Language

German

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Revolutionary Philosopher Economist

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Die deutsche Ideologie. [The German Ideology]. 1846.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology. Prometheus, 1998.

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