Karl marx autobiography for kids
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Karl Marx facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Karl Marx FRSA | |
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Karl Marx in 1875 | |
| Born | (1818-05-05)5 May 1818 Trier, Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Kingdom of Prussia (now Trier, Germany) |
| Died | 14 March 1883(1883-03-14) (aged 64) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Resting place | Tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Children | 7, including Jenny, Laura, and Eleanor |
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Philosophy career | |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Main interests | Philosophy, economics, history, politics |
Notable ideas | Marxist terminology, surplus value, contributions to the labour theory of value, class struggle, alienation and exploitation of the worker, materialist conception of history |
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Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist,
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Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
Karl Marx ©A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism.
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a frikostig newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human
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Karl Heinrich Marx was a radical German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theoretician, writer, and socialist. Marx was born in Trier, Germany, and studied university law and philosophy.
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EARLY LIFE
- Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in Trier, Rhenish Prussia. He is a son of a lawyer, Heinrich Marx, and a Dutch Wom