Two gentlemen, one of them holding a guitar, stand on either side of a large picture of Karl Marx. They are either teaching, or are students, of Marxism class held in a Church located at Reservoir and Alvarado streets. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883), often called the father of communism, was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx did not believe that all people worked the same way, or that how one works is entirely personal and individual. Instead, he argued that work is a social activity and that the conditions and forms under and through which people work are socially determined and change over time. Marxism describes history with his "Five Stages of History" as determined by economics: Primitive Communism, Slave Society, Feudalism, Free Market Society, and Communism. Photograph dated November 9, 1997.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Marx, Karl,--1818-1883--Portraits Communism--Study and teaching--California--Los Angeles Classroom learning centers--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Socialism--California--Los Angeles Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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