Karl Marx

Author · 174 books

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 the Communist Manifesto. After the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany, in which Marx participated, he eventually wound up in London. Marx worked as foreign correspondent for several U.S. publications. His Das Kapital came out in three volumes (1867, 1885 and 1894). Marx organized the International and helped found the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Although Marx was not religious, Bertrand Russell later remarked, "His belief that there is a cosmic force called Dialectical Materialism which governs human history independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" (Portraits from Memory, 1956). Marx once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" (according to Engels in a letter to C. Schmidt; see Who's Who in Hell by Warren Allen Smith). D. 1883. Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Hegel's Philosophy of Religion in 1840. Marx was also engaged in writing his doctoral thesis, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, which he completed in 1841. It was described as "a daring and original piece of work in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy": the essay was controversial, particularly among the conservative professors at the University of Berlin. Marx decided, instead, to submit his thesis to the more liberal University of Jena, whose faculty awarded him his PhD in April 1841. As Marx and Bauer were both atheists, in March 1841 they began plans for a journal entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), but it never came to fruition. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl\_Marx http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/ http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi... http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/... http://www.historyguide.org/intellect... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic... http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...

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Capital

Le capital - Livre I, sections V à VIII

Capital

Dispatches for the New York Tribune

On Religion

EL CAPITAL - Karl Marx

The Holy Family

Theories of Surplus Value

The Communist Manifesto/State and Revolution

Manuscrits de 1844

A Collection of Marxist Writings

O Manifesto Comunista

Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

On Society and Social Change with Selections by Friedrich Engels

Marxism. Anarchism. Communism

El capital. Crítica de la economía política

La comuna de París

Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society

رأس المال المجلد الرابع

The First International and After

Le Capital (Tome 2-Livres II et III) de Marx,Karl (2008) Poche

Människans Frigörelse

The Poverty of Philosophy

The Political Writings

El Papel del Trabajo en la Transformación del Mono en Hombre; Manifiesto del Partido Comunista; Ideología Alemana

Kapitalen

Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

Birth of the Communist Manifesto

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

La cuestión nacional y la formación de los estados

On the Paris Commune

The Marx Reader

The Civil War in France

The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

La concezione materialistica della storia

Manifeste du parti communiste (La Petite Collection)

Capital

Collected Works of Marx and Engels

Selected Works

The Capital (Vol. 1-3)

Karl Mark Early Writings

Capital

Elementos fundamentales para la crítica de la economía política 1 (Borrador) 1857-58

Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy

Karl Marx

The German Ideology

The Portable Karl Marx

On the National and Colonial Questions

O Manifesto do Partido Comunista

Antología

Los nacionalismos contra el proletariado

Vive la Commune !

The Classics of Marxism

The Communist Manifesto

Capital

Karl Marx On India

On the Jewish Question

Принципы коммунизма. Манифест коммунистической партии

O Capital

Kapitał

Contributo para a História do Feminismo

The Communist Manifesto with Selections from the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital

The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850

더 저널리스트

Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848

Marx i ett band

Private Property and Communism

Capital

Later Political Writings

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Manifesto of the Communist Party

The Civil War in the United States

The Communist Manifesto/Wages, Price and Profit

Capital

Complete Works of Karl Marx

Selected Essays

On Suicide