Karl Marx

1818-1883
Early Life
Karl Marx was born into a middle class home as the third of nine
children on May 5, 1818, in Prussia, Germany. He was ethnically
Jewish, but after the abrogation of Jewish emancipation his father
converted to Lutheranism, and Karl himself was baptized in August
1824. He was privately educated by his father until 1830 when he
entered Trier High School. He eventually traveled to the University Trier, Germany, Marx’s birthplace
of Bonn, studying law as insisted by his father (as opposed to the
philosophy and literature Marx would have preferred to have
studied).
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1840-1845
● Throughout the 1940’s Marx theorized in many notebooks now
called the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 the
causes and effects of extreme poverty and whether or not
Communism could fix those problems
● Karl Marx was expelled from Paris in late 1844 for his socialist
writings,
● In 1848 he was the lead writer on the famous pamphlet The
Communist Manifesto. Possibly the most important document
ever written in favor of Communism.
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Post 1845
● In 1864 he helped found the International Workingmen's Congress.,
Alternatively known as the First International.
● During the time of the First International he published the first
volume of “Capital” Where he wanted to express to the world its
own “economic law of motion in modern society”, And how
capitalism is bound to fail and that the communist revolution is
inevitable.
Later Life
● In 1849, shortly after writing the Communist Manifesto, Marx was expelled from Belgium, and,
after Prussia refuted his will to return, went to London.
● In London, Marx helped in founding the German Workers’ Educational Society along with a
headquarters for the Communist League
● He kept up his work as a journalist
● Published Das Kapital in 1867, and spent the rest of his life writing additional manuscripts
● Died in 1833 of pleurisy

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Works Cited
https://www.biography.com/people/karl-marx-9401219

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.HTML