Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 to Heinrich Marx (1777–1838) and Henriette Pressburg (1788–1863). He was born at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, an ancient city then part of the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine.[23] Marx's family was originally non-religious Jewish, but had converted formally to Christianity before his birth. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.[24] His father, as a child known as Herschel, was the first in the line to receive a secular education
Karl Heinrich Marx (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)[13] was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married German theatre critic and political activist 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 British Museum Reading Room. 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.
Karl Marx
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Photograph by John Mayall, 1875
Born
Karl Heinrich Marx
5 May 1818
Trier, Prussia, German Confederation
Died
14 March 1883 (aged 64)
London, England
Burial place
17 March 1883, Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Nationality
Prussian (1818–1845)
Stateless (after 1845)
Political party
Communist Correspondence Committee (until 1847)
Communist League (1847–1852)
International Workingmen's Association (1864–1872)
Spouse(s)
Jenny von Westphalen
(m. 1843; died 1881)
Children
7, including Jenny, Laura and Eleanor
Parents
Heinrich Marx (father)
Henriette Pressburg (mother)
Relatives
Louise Juta (sister)
Jean Longuet (grandson)
Philosophy career
Education
University of Bonn
University of Berlin
University of Jena (PhD, 1841)[2]
Era
19th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
Marxism
Thesis
Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie (The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature) (1841)
Doctoral advisor
Bruno Bauer
Main interests
Philosophy, economics, history, politics
Notable ideas
Marxist terminology, surplus value, contributions to dialectics and the labour theory of value, class conflict, alienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history
Influences
G. W. F. Hegel • Ludwig Feuerbach • Charles Darwin • Charles Babbage[3] • Aristotle • Epicurus • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Baruch Spinoza • Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi[4] • Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz[5][6] • David Ricardo • Adam Smith • Adam Ferguson[7] • Friedrich Engels • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon • Constantin Pecqueur[8] • Henri de Saint-Simon • Robert Owen • William Thompson[9] • Charles Fourier • Baron d'Holbach[10] • Justus von Liebig[11] • Ludwig von Westphalen • Max Stirner • François-Noël Babeuf • Voltaire • Giambattista Vico • Maximilien Robespierre • William Shakespeare • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Claude Adrien Helvétius • François Guizot • Moses Hess
Possibly Victor Considerant[12]
Influenced
List of Marxists
Signature
Karl Marx Signature.svg
Marx's critical theories about society, economics, and politics, collectively understood as Marxism, hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In the capitalist mode of production, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour-power in return for wages.[14] Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that capitalism produced internal tensions like previous socioeconomic systems and that those would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as the socialist mode of production. For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism—owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature—would eventuate the working class's development of class consciousness, leading
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