In 1879, Marx dictated the preamble of the program for the French Socialist Workers Federation and shaped much of its content. Marx s work seems to be more of a criticism of Hegelian and other philosophy, than as a statement of his own philosophy. While Hegel felt that philosophy explained reality, Marx felt that philosophy should be made into reality, an hard thing to do. Marx is unique from other philosophers in that he chooses to regard man as an individual, a human being. This is evident in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
Humans simply struggle with nature for the satisfaction of man s needs.
From this struggle comes man s awareness of himself as an individual and as something separate from nature. So, he seeks to oppose nature. He sees that history is just the story of man creating and re-creating himself and sees that man creates himself, and that a god has no part in it. Thus, the communist belief in no religion. Marx also says that the more man works as a laborer, the less he has to consume for himself because his product and labor are estranged from him.