Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist who developed the philosophy of Marxism, which opposes capitalism and social class divisions. He was heavily influenced by Georg Hegel and the Young Hegelians, and spent most of his life studying and writing about history, economics, and politics. Marx was born in Trier, Prussia in 1818 and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Berlin in 1841. He married Jenny von Westphalen and wrote several works, including The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels. Marx died in 1883 at the age of 65.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist best known for his philosophy known as Marxism. The basic philosophy behind Marxism is an anti-capitalist position which is against materialism and different social classes. Marx spent most of his life studying and writing about history, economics and politics.
Marx was born in Trier, Prussia on May 5, 1818. His parents, Heinrich Marx and Henriette Presbury Marx, had six other children, but only three of these – Jenny, Laura and Eleanor – lived beyond infancy. Heinrich Marx was a Jewish lawyer, but he converted to Lutheranism because he was not allowed to practice as a Jew. Karl Marx was baptized a Lutheran at the age of six.
He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1841 from the University of Berlin. His philosophical views were heavily influenced by the work of Georg Hegel and the Young Hegelians. The Young Hegelians devoted themselves to trying to fundamentally change Prussian autocracy and organized religion. Marx thought that class struggle existed due to the division of social classes and thought that religion was a human invention with strong social elements.
In 1842, Karl Marx became editor of a liberal democratic newspaper called the Rheinische Zeitung. When the government banned the paper, he and his new bride, Jenny von Westphalen, went to Paris. Marx married Jenny on June 19, 1843. He Wrote Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in Paris and this work was published in 1844. The Manuscripts contained Marx’s philosophy that private property was not good for mankind as it alienated the sense of community.
After Paris, Marx and Jenny lived in Brussels and then in London. In London, Karl Marx wrote The German Ideology with Freidrich Engels. The basic philosophy of this book is that economic and social issues affect the means of production and the development of materialism. Marx and Engels’ best-known work, The Communist Manifesto of 1848, expressed that a communist society would be the end result of a history of class struggle between workers and entrepreneurs.
Karl Marx spent most of his days passionately involved in the subjects of economics and social history. He was said to have been deeply affected by the death of his wife Jenny from cancer in 1881 at the age of 67. Marx died at the age of 65 of natural causes on March 14, 1883.
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