Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Marxwas a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1818
CityTrier, Germany
CountryGermany
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.