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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
Along with Engels, Marx took part in the political and philosophical struggle of his times, writing the Communist Manifesto a year before the Revolutions of 1848. Marx had broken with his university environment, German Idealism and the Young Hegelians, and took part in the debates of the European workers' movement, in particular in relation with the First International founded in 1864. He published the first tome of Das Kapital in 1867, a few years before the 1871 Paris Commune. The influence of his ideas, already popular during his life, was given added impetus by the victory of the Russian Bolsheviks in the 1917 October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century. The relation of Marx's own thought to the popular "Marxist" interpretations of it during this period is a point of controversy; he himself once said that "the only thing * knew was that he wasn't Marxist". While Marx's ideas have declined somewhat in popularity, particularly with the decline of Marxism in Russia, they are still very influential today, both in academic circles, and in political practice, and Marxism continues to be the official ideology of some Communist states and political movements.
Biography
Childhood
Karl Marx was born into a Jewish family in Trier, in the Rhineland region of Germany. His father Heinrich, who had descended from a long line of rabbis, converted to Christianity, despite his many deistic tendencies and his admiration of such Enlightenment figures as Voltaire and Rousseau. Marx's father was actually born Herschel Mordechai, but when the Prussian authorities would not allow him to continue practicing law as a Jew, he joined the official denomination of the Prussian state, Lutheranism, which accorded him advantages, as one of a small minority of Lutherans in a predominantly Roman Catholic region. The Marx household hosted many visiting intellectuals and artists during Marx's early life. More on [ Karl Marx ]
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@caliafrican It's karl marx, i think.
RobertTidwell (RobertTidwell) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:15:45 -0000
@caliafrican It's karl marx, i think.
Karl marx dislidenya aya gambarnya lagi peace loh. Manteb bgt dah bu mai -_- eko macam apa itu!?
WinterSongs (Fuyu no Uta) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:03:09 -0000
Karl marx dislidenya aya gambarnya lagi peace loh. Manteb bgt dah bu mai -_- eko macam apa itu!?
RT @FederalistNo2: Oh, my! I've found that Abraham Lincoln was really a "tyrant". So much so that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln in 1864 to con ...
resister419 (jason jarrett) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:52:27 -0000
RT @FederalistNo2: Oh, my! I've found that Abraham Lincoln was really a "tyrant". So much so that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln in 1864 to con ...
Oh, my! I've found that Abraham Lincoln was really a "tyrant". So much so that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln in 1864 to congratulate him.
FederalistNo2 (Kimberly Boldt) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:21:48 -0000
Oh, my! I've found that Abraham Lincoln was really a "tyrant". So much so that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln in 1864 to congratulate him.
Karl Marx:"religion will disappear." God: "Karl Marx will disappear." We don't need to defend God, only to represent Him well. (me)
STEPcoach (Bob Collins, CDM) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:42:07 -0000
Karl Marx:"religion will disappear." God: "Karl Marx will disappear." We don't need to defend God, only to represent Him well. (me)
@inmyredallstars Eu gosto do velho Karl Marx, cara.
shafuldifornio (Verônica Miranda ) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:08:30 -0000
@inmyredallstars Eu gosto do velho Karl Marx, cara.
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Communist Manifesto - Background on the publication of the Communist Manifesto and presentation of some special editions from the International Institute of Social History's collection, including the only remaining handwritten page from the first draft.
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Karl Marx: The Story of His Life - Biography of Karl Marx written in 1918 by Franz Mehring.
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Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Hypertext - Karl Marx's most enigmatic text available online in hypertext form that follows the original pagination and layout.
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