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Marx is one of the most important thinkers of the [[Communism|communist]] movement, having written several books on [[capitalism]] and its intrinsic exploitation, he highlighted the contradictions in the capitalist mode of production, and helped develop socialist economic models. His essays such as "[[Capital]]" and "[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]" are works that had international influence after their publication. | Marx is one of the most important thinkers of the [[Communism|communist]] movement, having written several books on [[capitalism]] and its intrinsic exploitation, he highlighted the contradictions in the capitalist mode of production, and helped develop socialist economic models. His essays such as "[[Capital]]" and "[[Manifesto of the Communist Party]]" are works that had international influence after their publication. | ||
== Personal life == | |||
Marx was born in the small town of Trier, in the south of Rhenish Prussia, in what is today Germany, on the borders with France. At the time, Trier had only 12 thousand residents, and from 1798 to 1814, the city belonged to France, which changed after Napoleon's defeat and Prussian annexation of the region. | |||
He was the third of the nine children of Hirschel and Henriette Marx, and belonged to the prosperous petty bourgeois of Trier. | |||
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Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a 19th century German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary who, alongside his friend and long-time collaborator Engels, discovered the laws of development of human societies based on the dialectical materialist method.
Marx is one of the most important thinkers of the communist movement, having written several books on capitalism and its intrinsic exploitation, he highlighted the contradictions in the capitalist mode of production, and helped develop socialist economic models. His essays such as "Capital" and "Manifesto of the Communist Party" are works that had international influence after their publication.
Personal life
Marx was born in the small town of Trier, in the south of Rhenish Prussia, in what is today Germany, on the borders with France. At the time, Trier had only 12 thousand residents, and from 1798 to 1814, the city belonged to France, which changed after Napoleon's defeat and Prussian annexation of the region.
He was the third of the nine children of Hirschel and Henriette Marx, and belonged to the prosperous petty bourgeois of Trier.