Marx - a plagiarist?

[Ixtab]

Did Marx plagiarise his ideas from

Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rodbertus-Jagetzow)

and William Thompson, Adam Weishaupt, or Considerant?

I have heard all of these allegations.

[Ixtab]

"Ihre sogenannte Religion wirkt bloß wie ein Opiat: reizend, betäubend, Schmerzen aus Schwäche stillend." -- Poet Novalis

[Ixtab]

^ Does that count as Plagiarism?

[Geist]

Translate please, as well as a little info on the poet if you could, and answers might be more forthcoming?

[Hippias]

He stole tons of phrases from other authors. "Workers of the world unite" for example was written by Heinrich Heine. See Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals" for the list of writers he plagiarized.

[Geist]

Maybe he was putting communism into practise and sharing the phrases...;)

[Ravenheart]

Translate please, as well as a little info on the poet if you could, and answers might be more forthcoming?

The quotation reads something like: "Your so-called religion works just like Opium; stimulating, narcotic, easing pains out of weakness." Novalis was a German poet and philosopher of early Romanticism.

[Micaelis]

Nothing is original in and of itself; there is no one traceable origin. Being is historical and symptomatic of time, of its being-there-in-the-world. From this we may understand that Marx was not a plagiarist. Like any author he was intertextually predisposed.

[Ravenheart]

Nothing is original in and of itself; there is no one traceable origin. Being is historical and symptomatic of time, of its being-there-in-the-world. From this we may understand that Marx was not a plagiarist.

That doesn't follow at all. Word games.