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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Karl Marx born May 5,1818

 





Karl Marx

Karl Marx 001.jpg
Photograph of Marx taken by John Mayall in 1875
Born
Karl Heinrich Marx

5 May 1818
Died14 March 1883 (aged 64)
London, England
Burial place17 March 1883, Tomb of Karl MarxHighgate Cemetery, London
Nationality
Education
Political party
Spouse(s)
(m. 1843; died 1881)
Children7, including JennyLaura and Eleanor
Parents
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Philosophy career
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
ThesisDifferenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie (The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature) (1841)
Doctoral advisorBruno Bauer
Main interests
  • Philosophy
  • economics
  • history
  • politics
Notable ideas
Marxist terminologyvalue form, contributions to dialectics and the marxian critique of political economyclass conflictalienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history
Influences
Influenced
Signature
Karl Marx Signature.svg

Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologistpolitical theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-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.












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