Karl Marx and the Authorship of communism

It has been said that Karl Marx wrote his theories concerning socialism from a liberal starting point. This essay will discuss this possibility, in relation to socialism and if Marx's theories would in fact, create a conflict free world. There are two main areas within this question: firstly, the differences and similarities between socialism and liberalism, and how it is possible to write one from the starting point of the other, and secondly, whether socialism, …

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