Karl Marx

    "Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
    Karl Marx's writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism, which became one of the leading world ideologies of the Twentieth Century before its ultimate decline in the 1980s and 1990s.
    How Marx would have reacted, had he seen to what use his ideas were put by the likes of Lenin, Stalin andMao, will remain one of history's intriguing unanswered questions.
    The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most
influential socialist thinker to emerge in the Nineteenth Century. Although he was largely ignored by scholarsin his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movementafter his death in 1883.
    He said: "The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases
in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates…"