Discuss the main intellectual ideas that influenced Marx’s work.

The major intellectual influences on Marx were Enlighten ment ideas, German philosophy, the French socialists, and the English and Scottish political economists. Marx synthesized these to develop a new system of thought .

In the first of two Big Questions on class, writer and philosopher Jonathan Rée looks at the thinking of Karl Marx, who predicted that class divisions would ultimately disappear. The Big Question follows Marx's time in Paris to examine a year in his life when he began to formulate his ideas - ideas that would come to influence billions of people around the world. Who and what inspired him?

In 1843, Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen arrived in Paris at the invitation of a German philosopher, Arnold Ruge to work on a new magazine called the Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher, dedicated to the "ruthless criticism of the present".

According to Marx's biographer, Francis Wheen , Paris was "absolutely swarming with utopian communists, anarchists, Christian socialists, poets, philosophers, it was a hotbed of new thinking."

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