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| Author | Maurice Cornforth |
| Written in | 1949 |
| First published | London, England |
| Type | Pamphlet |
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Comrades
26 December
1825
- The gentry tries to overthrow the Russian monarchy in a failed coup d'état called the Decembrist uprising.
1861
- 38 Native Dakota are hanged by the US Army in the United States' largest mass hanging in Mankato, Minnesota.
1893
- Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong is born in Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing dynasty.
1941
- Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes Thanksgiving Day; a day that originally celebrated the massacre of 700 indigenous Pequot.
1948
- Soviet troops exit Korea in the Korean war.
1968
- Jose Maria Sison founds the Communist Party of the Philippines as a break from the PKP-1930.
1975
- Soviet Tu-144 supersonic passenger aircraft goes into service, making it the first of its kind.
1991
- The USSR is illegally dissolved in a bourgeois counter-revolution.
2012
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Karl Marx | |
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 Portrait of comrade Marx. | |
| Born | Karl Heinrich Marx 5 May 1818 Trier, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation |
| Died | 14 March 1883 (aged 64) London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Prussian (1818–1845) Stateless (after 1845) |
| Known for | Developing a line of political thought known as Marxism |
| Field of study | Philosophy, science, political economy, history |
Karl Heinrich 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 Friedrich Engels, discovered the laws of development of human societies based on the dialectical materialist method and in doing so creating Marxism.
Marx is the most important thinker of the communist movement. He highlighted the contradictions and intrinsic exploitation in capitalism, and helped develop socialist economic models. His most famous works, the Communist Manifesto, which he co-wrote with Engels in 1848, and Capital, the first volume of which was completed in 1867, have had enormous international influence.
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