ABSTRACT
Whilst reading the work of Ludwig Feuerbach in 1845 Karl Marx, the German economist and philosopher, produced his eleven Theses on Feuerbach. Both summarising and responding to Feuerbach’s work Marx’s eleventh thesis (or argument) ran ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’ (Marx and Engels 1968: 30). Marx conceived of a society alienated by the influence of ideology and money (his major work is simply entitled Das Kapital). However he did so in German, at great length, and with considerable complexity. This partly explains the especial popularity of The Communist Manifesto; unlike much of Marx’s works it is short and relatively sweet, was completed before his death, and was intended for popular readership.
