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Karl Marx

Born

in Trier, Kingdom of Prussia

May 05, 1818

Died

March 14, 1883

Genre

Philosophy, Politics, Economics

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Karl Marx, Ph.D. (University of Jena, 1841) was a social scientist who was a key contributor to the development of Communist theory.

Marx was born in Trier, a city then in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine. His father, born Jewish, converted to Protestantism shortly before Karl's birth in response to a prohibition newly introduced into the Rhineland by the Prussian Kingdom on Jews practicing law. Educated at the Universities of Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, Marx founded the Socialist newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. After being expelled from France at the urging of the Prussian government, which "banished" Marx in absentia, Marx studied economics in Brussels. He and Engels founded the Communist League in 1847 and published ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 223,438 ratings · 13,227 reviews · 2,837 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Communist Manifesto 3.64 avg rating — 151,597 ratings — published 1848 — 3499 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 4.27 avg rating — 11,244 ratings — published 1867 — 333 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (Editor), Serge L. Levitsky (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 10,183 ratings — published 1867 — 537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 6,510 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 4.18 avg rating — 4,556 ratings — published 1852 — 427 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 4.10 avg rating — 4,380 ratings — published 1846 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, Martin Milligan (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 3,650 ratings — published 1844 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit 4.33 avg rating — 2,064 ratings — published 1849 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critique of the Gotha Program 4.25 avg rating — 2,020 ratings — published 1875 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 1891 — 177 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Capital (3 books)
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David Fernbach (Translator),

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4.09 avg rating — 24,548 ratings

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works (50 books)
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4.23 avg rating — 14,416 ratings

Das Kapital Manga (2 books)
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3.80 avg rating — 607 ratings

Political Writings (3 books)
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David Fernbach (Editor)

4.07 avg rating — 180 ratings

Theories of Surplus-Value (4 books)
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Quotes by Karl Marx (?)

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

1358 likes

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
― Karl Marx

tags: genuinely-care

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Friedrich Nietzsche

25 votes, 18.7%

Albert Camus

15 votes, 11.2%

Plato

9 votes, 6.7%

Aristotle

9 votes, 6.7%

Marcus Aurelius

8 votes, 6.0%

Jean-Paul Sartre

7 votes, 5.2%

Immanuel Kant

6 votes, 4.5%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

6 votes, 4.5%

Simone de Beauvoir

6 votes, 4.5%

René Descartes

5 votes, 3.7%

Soren Kierkegaard

5 votes, 3.7%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

4 votes, 3.0%

Karl Marx

3 votes, 2.2%

Augustine of Hippo

3 votes, 2.2%

David Hume

3 votes, 2.2%

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

3 votes, 2.2%

Martin Heidegger

3 votes, 2.2%

yes (write-in)

3 votes, 2.2%

Thomas Aquinas

2 votes, 1.5%

Julius Evola (write-in)

2 votes, 1.5%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

2 votes, 1.5%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1 vote, 0.7%

Olavo de Carvalho

1 vote, 0.7%

José Ortega y Gasset

1 vote, 0.7%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

1 vote, 0.7%

Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

1 vote, 0.7%

Roger Scruton

0 votes, 0.0%

Hannah Arendt

0 votes, 0.0%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

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Michael Oakeshott

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Eric Voegelin

0 votes, 0.0%

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