Who is Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married German theatre critic and political activist Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in ...
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Karl Marx Quotes

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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