karl marx by Jasper Yoho

Early Life

sammy_ziegler226 — 2018-03-06 13:12:51 UTC

-Born on May 05, 1818 in Trier, Prussia

-March 14, 1883 in London, United Kingdom

-Marx was born in Trier, Rhenish Prussia, on May 5, 1818, the son of Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, and Henrietta Presburg Marx, a Dutchwoman. Both Heinrich and Henrietta were descendants of a long line of rabbis. Barred from the practice of law as a Jew, Heinrich Marx became converted to Lutheranism about 1817, and Karl was baptized in the same church in 1824, at the age of 6. Karl attended a Lutheran elementary school but later became an atheist and materialist, rejecting both the Christian and Jewish religions. It was he who coined the aphorism "Religion is the opium of the people," a cardinal principle in modern communism.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVh4FBjPh6A

Karl's Works

sammy_ziegler226 — 2018-03-07 13:05:05 UTC

Marx wrote hundreds of articles, brochures, and reports but few books as such. He published only five books during his lifetime. Two of them were polemical, and three were political-economic. The first, The Holy Family (1845), written in collaboration with Engels, was a polemic against Marx's former teacher and Young Hegelian philosopher Bruno Bauer. The second was Misère de la philosophie (The Poverty of Philosophy), written by Marx himself in French and published in Paris and Brussels in 1847. As its subtitle indicates, this polemical work was "An Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon."