Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894), a critique of classical political economy which employs his theory of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism, in the culmination of his life's work. Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Trier
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinUniversity of Bonn
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Bruno Bauer
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Trending topics shown first"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished;…"
"The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, b…"
"In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return."
"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."
"Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves …"
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Timeline
1867
Born
Birth1894
Died
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