Karl Marx
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| Full name | Karl Heinrich Marx |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
| Main interests | Politics, Economics, class struggle, Alienation |
| Notable ideas | Co-founder of Marxism (with Engels), Alienation and exploitation of the worker, The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Materialist conception of history |
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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German political thinker who wrote about money (economics) and power (politics). Marx thought that if a place that works together runs on wage-labor, then there would always be class struggle. Marx thought that this class struggle would result in workers taking power. His most famous book was the Communist Manifesto. He wrote it with Friedrich Engels in 1848. The book sets out the ideas and aims of communism. His ideas are called Marxism.
His most important work is Das Kapital, or Capital. He spent many years working on the three parts of the book. Das Kapital describes how "capitalism" works and the problems this creates. The book has led to many arguments between those who agree with the book and those who do not. Marx's ideas have been thought of as responsible for socialist revolutions (like the Russian Revolution).
Marx's most popular theory was his "Materialism". He believed that religion, morality, social structures and other things are all rooted in economics.
Karl Marx was born in Trier (Germany) in 1818, but he had to move many times because the government did not like his ideas. Marx lived for a long time in London. He died there in 1883. After he died, his friend Engels finished many of his works.
Marx also wrote the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in his early days.
Many people continue to follow and develop Marx's ideas.
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- Marx and Engels Internet Archive [1]
- Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843)
- On the Jewish Question (1843)
- Notes on James Mill (1844)
- Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (1844)
- Theses on Feuerbach (1845)
- The German Ideology [with Engels] (1845-46)
- The Poverty of Philosophy (1846-47)
- Wage-Labour and Capital (1847)
- Manifesto of the Communist Party [with Engels] (1847-48)
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
- Grundrisse (1857-58)
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
- Writings on the U.S. Civil War [with Engels; compiled] (1861)
- Theories of Surplus Value, 3 volumes (1862)
- Value, Price and Profit (1865)
- Capital vol. 1 (1867)
- The Civil War in France (1871)
- Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)
- Notes on Wagner (1883)
- Capital, vol. 2 [posthumously, by Engels] (1893)
- Capital, vol. 3 [posthumously, by Engels] (1894)
- Letters [with Engels; compiled] (1833-95)
- Ethnological Notebooks — ISBN 90-232-0924-9 (1879-80)
- Works by Karl Marx at Project Gutenberg
- "The Reality Behind Commodity Fetishism" (in English) at Sic et Non (in German)
- Libertarian Communist Library Karl Marx Archive
- Karl Marx Biography
- Works by Karl Marx at Zeno.org (German)
[change] Biographies
- Friedrich Engels' Biography of Marx
- Franz Mehring's Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
- Vladimir Lenin's Karl Marx Biography
- Francis Wheen's Karl Marx: A Life
- Karl Korsch's Karl Marx Biography
- Maximilien Rubel's Marx, life and works
[change] Articles and Entries
- Dead Sociologists - Karl Marx
- Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx (New Palgrave article)
- Marx on India and the Colonial Question from anti-caste
- Portraits of Karl Marx
- The Karl Marx Museum
- Marxmyths.org - Various essays on misinterpretations of Marx
- Paul Dorn, The Paris Commune and Marx' Theory of Revolution
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
- Why Marx is the Man of the Moment
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