Karl Marx: The Revolutionary Thinker Who Shaped Modern Political Theory

Karl Marx
⬧ Karl Marx's complete name was Karl Heinrich Marx.
⬧ He was born on May 5, 1818 in Prussia (Germany).
⬧ His father's name was Heinrich Marx and mother's name was Henriette Pressburg.
⬧ At the age of 17, Marx joined the University of Bonn to study law.
⬧ He was greatly influenced by Hegel's philosophy.
⬧ In the years 1839-1841, he obtained his doctorate by writing a dissertation on the natural philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus.
⬧ In the year 1859, Marx published the findings of his economic studies in a book titled ' Zur Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie'.
⬧ Its first part was published in the year 1867 in the name of 'Das Kapital'.
⬧ Karl Marx is mainly famous for his book 'The Communist Manifesto' (1848) and 'Das Kapital'.
⬧ The remaining parts of Das Kapital were edited and published after his death.
⬧ Marx's monument is established in Berlin.
⬧ The 'Theory of class struggle' is the backbone of Karl Marx's scientific socialism.
⬧ Karl Marx's portrait was present on the highest denomination notes in East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
⬧ Karl Marx died on March 14, 1883 in Britain.