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Karl Marx
German philosopher
Also known as: Karl Heinrich Marx
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- In full:
- Karl Heinrich Marx
- Founder:
- First International
- Notable Works:
- “Das Kapital”
- “The Communist Manifesto”
- Subjects Of Study:
- capitalism
- exchange value
- philosophy of history
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Karl Marx (born May 5, 1818, Trier, Rhine province, Prussia [Germany]—died March 14, 1883, London, England) revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. He published (with Friedrich Engels) Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848), commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement’s most important book, Das Kapital. These writings and others by Marx and Engels form the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism. (See also socialism; communism.) (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) Karl Heinrich Marx was the oldest ...(100 of 5519 words)