Karl Marx (1818-1883) · CatalogKarl MarxKarl Marx (1818-1883) · CatalogGerman philosopher, economist and revolutionary, author of Capital and co-author of The Communist Manifesto.
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Karl Marx
1818-1883 · German philosopher, economist and revolutionary, author of Capital and co-author of The Communist Manifesto
About Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was born in Trier in the Prussian Rhineland and studied law and philosophy in Bonn and Berlin. After editing a radical newspaper in Cologne he went into exile in Paris and Brussels, where he and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). From 1849 he lived in London, often in poverty, writing journalism and researching in the British Museum. He published A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) and the first volume of Capital (1867), and helped lead the International Working Men's Association. He died in London in 1883; Engels edited the later volumes of Capital.
Capital, Volume I, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production, is the only volume of Karl Marx's critique of political economy that he saw through the press. It was published in German in Hamburg in 1867, after more than fifteen years of research in the British Museum Reading Room, and revised by Marx for later editions.