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| Marx's portrait taken in 1875 [wikipedia] |
| Born | 5-May-1818 (Trier, Prussia) |
| Died | 14 March 1883 (Age 64 Y), London, UK |
| Nationality | Prussian (1818–1845), Stateless (after 1845) |
| Spouse | Jenny Westphalen |
| Children | 7, Including Jenny, Laura, and Eleanor |
| Parents | Heinrich Marx (father), Henriette Pressburg (mother) |
| Relatives | Louise Juta (sister), Jean Longuet (grandson) |
| Religious Belief | Christian, later abandoned religion (atheist) |
Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital.
His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.
Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both lauded and criticised. His work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought. Many intellectuals, labour unions, artists and political parties worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas. Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science etc.
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| Image source: Google |
| Alma Mater | University of Bonn, University of Berlin, University of Jena (PhD) |
| School | Dialectical materialism, Historical materialism, Marxism |
| Main Interests | Philosophy, Economics, History, Politics |
| Notable Ideas | Marxist Terminology, Surplus Value, Contributions to the labour theory of value, Class conflict, Alienation and exploitation of theworker, materialist conception of history |
Great creations by Karl Marx
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Critique of Political Economy (1859)
- Inaugural Address (1864)
- Das Kapital (1867)
- Value, Price, Profit (1867)