Example sentences of "marx [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Marx believed that capitalist values were completely determined by considerations of productivity .
2 Apart from the basic contradictions of capitalist society , Marx believed that certain factors in the natural development of a capitalist economy will hasten its downfall .
3 Marx believed that Western society had developed through four main epochs : primitive communism , ancient society , feudal society and capitalist society .
4 However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system .
5 Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership .
6 Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working .
7 Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat .
8 By contrast , Marx shows that other systems , working on different assumptions , can exist , and this for him implies that future change to a radically different social system is therefore also possible .
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