A World Without Jews

Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany, and was educated at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. He received his doctorate in philosophy at Berlin in 1841. In 1844, in Paris, Marx, now calling himself a Communist, became a leading spirit in radical groups and a close friend of Friedrich Engels. Marx devoted a great deal of his time to practical political activity and the labor movement, taking a leading role in the founding and subsequent guiding of the International Workingmen’s Association, which became known as The First International. He lived the life of a political refugee in Paris, Brussels and finally London, where he remained for more than thirty years until his death in 1883. Marx, together with Engels, was the founder of the school of philosophy known as Dialectical Materialism. The fields developed in most detail by Marx, besides economic theory, are social and political philosophy, and together with Engels, the logical and ontological aspects of Materialist Dialectics. This book represents Marx’s first attempts to deal with the concepts of Historical Materialism.
 
Dagobert D. Runes was born in 1903 in Czernowitz, Bukowina, Romania. He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna and immigrated to New York City in 1926. He brought with him a strong bond to many of Europe’s most notable German-speaking scholars, including Albert Einstein. In 1941, he founded Philosophical Library, which published the work of brilliant European intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners with whom he had been friends. He authored the Dictionary of Philosophy, which became a treasured possession of every student of philosophy. Translated into numerous languages, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Until his death in 1982, directing Philosophical Library and Wisdom Library (his paperback house) and publishing his own as well as other thought-provoking philosophical works were his life’s work.