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  <name><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Correct date of death - March 14, 1883

Karl Heinrich Marx was a 19th-century philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary. Often called the father of communism, Marx was both a scholar and a political activist. He addressed a wide range of political as well as social issues, and is known for, amongst other things, his analysis of history. His approach is indicated by the opening line Chapter 1 of the &lt;i&gt;The Communist Manifesto&lt;/i&gt;(1848): &quot;The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.&quot; Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, capitalism itself will be displaced by communism, a classless society which emerges after a transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

On the one hand, Marx argued for a systemic understanding of socioeconomic change. On this model, it is the structural contradictions within capitalism which necessitate its end, giving way to communism:

On the other hand, Marx argued that socioeconomic change occurred through organized revolutionary action. On this model, capitalism will end through the organized actions of an international working class: &quot;Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.&quot; (from &lt;i&gt;The German Ideology&lt;/i&gt;)

While Marx was a relatively obscure figure in his own lifetime, his ideas began to exert a major influence on workers' movements shortly after his death. This influence was given added impetus by the victory of the Marxist Bolsheviks in the Russian October Revolution, and there are few parts of the world which were not significantly touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century. The relation of Marx to &quot;Marxism&quot; is a point of controversy. Marxism remains influential and controversial in academic and political circles.
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  <title><![CDATA[Capital 1: A Critique of Political Economy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Das Kapital]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Writings]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Capital 2: A Critique of Political Economy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy]]></title>
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