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Question Marx

Marx & Nietzsche

Jack Fox-Williams explores power, class and religion.

Although neither of them actually lived in it, Marx and Nietzsche were among the most important thinkers for the Twentieth Century. Their influence on its minds and events was profound as they radically transformed the way we think about the individual, society, and the human condition. In The Will to Power (1901), Nietzsche asserts that all human behavior and reasoning is a manifestation of the ‘will to power’. Marx, on the other hand, argued that social systems are fundamentally characterized by class conflict, in which the ruling class control the means of production through the exploitation of the other classes (for example, Das Kapital, 1867). So let’s look at the views of Marx and Nietzsche in regard to religion and the origins of Christian morality, and Western philosophy, examining the similarities and differences in their thinking in these areas.

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