Karl Marx
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Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher and political thinker who wrote about money (economics) and power (politics). Marx thought that in an economy run on wage-labor, there would always be class struggle. 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. He spent many years working on the three volumes of the book. Das Kapital talks about and disagrees with "capitalism". The book has led to many debates between those who agree with the book and those who do not. This is mainly because those who followed the book started many revolutions to take over many countries. Once they had control of those countries, many more people who disagreed with them were also killed.
Karl Marx was born in Germany in 1818, but had to move many times because people did not like his ideas.
Marx lived for a long time in London. He died there in 1883. After Marx died, his friend Engels finished many of his works.
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- On the Jewish Question (1843)
- Notes on James Mill (1844)
- Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (1844)
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- The German Ideology [with Engels] (1845-46)
- The Poverty of Philosophy (1846-47)
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- 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 9023209249 (1879-80)
- Works by Karl Marx at Project Gutenberg
- "The Reality Behind Commodity Fetishism" (in English) at Sic et Non (in German)
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- 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
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- Dead Sociologists - Karl Marx
- Ernest Mandel, Karl Marx (New Palgrave article)
- Marx on India and the Colonial Question from the Anti-Caste Information Page
- 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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