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Karl Marx

German-born philosopher (1818-1883)

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Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German economist, journalist, historian, and philosopher. Born in Trier to Heinrich Marx and Henriette Presburg, he was of Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. He was educated at the University of Bonn, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Marx worked in Cologne and was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Max Stirner, and Ludwig Feuerbach.

He was married to Jenny von Westphalen and had children including Eleanor Marx, Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, and Karl Liebknecht. His notable works include *Capital: A Critique of Political Economy*, *The Communist Manifesto*, *The German Ideology*, and *Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844*. Marx died in London and is buried at the Tomb of Karl Marx.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 5 May 1818
Died: 14 March 1883
Works: 2012

Top works

共産黨宣言
Karl Marx's Wages, price & profit
Manifesto comunista
Manifesto of the Communist Party
费尔巴哈

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Acting · Trier, Germany

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels) and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894); the latter employs his theory of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism, representing his greatest intellectual…

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Espirito do Tempo — Karl Marx2025
História do Comunismo — Self2024
Laissez-faire — Self (archive footage)2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Germany
Active from: 1818
Active to: 1883

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 5,144
Total plays: 62,246

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,153x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,740x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,732x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1818–1883
Nationality: DE, GB, DEU, AT, XX
Role / Field: Sociologists, Philosophers, Periodistas, Filosofos, Editors, Philosophy
Language: ger, deu
Gender: Male

Recorded by 46 libraries

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Quotes

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
““And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.””
“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form.”
“The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.”
“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.”

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Works in European collections

30 objects attributed to Karl Marx, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Karl Marx ( German: [ˈkaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analyzing class struggle under capitalism and predicting the system's overthrow by the proletariat in favour of communism. Marx co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) with his lifelong friend Friedrich Engels, and undertook a critique of classical political economy in his magnum opus, Das Kapital (1867–1894). Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence and have influenced revolutions and uprisings in many countries.

Born in Trier in the Kingdom of Prussia, Marx earned a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Jena in 1841. A Young Hegelian, he was influenced by the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and both critiqued and developed Hegel's ideas in works such as The German Ideology (written 1846) and the Grundrisse (written 1857–1858). While in Paris, Marx wrote his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and met Engels, who became a close collaborator. After moving to Brussels in 1845, they were active in the Communist League, and in 1848 wrote The Communist Manifesto, which expresses Marx's ideas and lays out a programme for revolution. Marx was expelled from Belgium and Germany, and in 1849 moved to London, where he wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) and Das Kapital. From 1864, Marx was involved in the International Workingmen's Association (First International), in which he fought the influence of anarchists led by Mikhail Bakunin. In his Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), Marx wrote on revolution, the state and the transition to communism. He died stateless in 1883 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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