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"I have a great tenderness for [Heraclitus] and of the ancients I only prefer Aristotle more. The later philosopher – Epicurus (especially this one) [...] I've made an object of special study, but more out of [...] than philosophical interest" (Marx, Doctoral Thesis)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709662?seq=1

That quote's in a letter from Marx to LaSalle evidently.

This one posits (political) reasons

https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/Lette…cember_21,_1857

but that appears to be as much conjecture as the title to P Herc 1005 (ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ....)

"Karl Marx ... designed a system of economic organisation"! This nonsense reportedly taught at U.S. schools calls for immediate refutation.

Karl Marx produced elaborate analysis and criticism of capitalism, thought that the transition from capitalism to communism was unavoidable and proposed a strategy how to accelerate that transition by abolishing democracy along with capitalism.

He did not design a system of economic organization with which to replace capitalism. Lenin recognized this painfully after the revolution:

"As Lenin admits, there is hardly a word on the economics of socialism to be found in Marx's work - apart from such useless slogans as 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs'". [p. 91/92 in Karl Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies"]