Karl Marx
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
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Why is this person notable and influential?From Wikipedia
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. 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 . 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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What schools is this person affiliated with?Notable Works
What contributions to academia has this person made?- Critique of the Gotha Program
- The Civil War in the United States
- Value, Price and Profit
- The Poverty of Philosophy
- Theories of Surplus Value
- The Holy Family
- The German Ideology
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
- The Communist Manifesto
- The Civil War in France
- On the Jewish Question
- Mathematical manuscripts of Karl Marx
- Herr Vogt
- Grundrisse
- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
- Das Kapital
- Capital, Volume III
- Capital, Volume II
- Capital, Volume I
- Wage Labour and Capital
- The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
- Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right