Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (pronunciation: /kɑːrl mɑːrks/; etymology: German origin, Karl meaning "man" and Marx meaning "of Mars") 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. His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Related Terms
- Communism: A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- Socialism: A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
- Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- Materialism: In philosophy, the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. Marx's theory of historical materialism is a key aspect of his work.
- Class struggle: The conflict of interests between the workers and the ruling class in a capitalist society, regarded as inevitably violent.
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