Karl Marx

Born 1818 in Trier, Germany Died 1883 in London, England

19^th Century Political Philosopher. Studied Journalism at University of Berlin. Marx edited the [Rheinische Zeitung]?, a radical German newspaper, which was later shutdown in part due to Marx's articles. He moved to France and began working with [Friedrich Engels]?. After he was forced to leave Paris for his writings, he and Engels moved to Brussels. It was there in 1848 he wrote his most famous work, The Communist Manifesto together with Engels. His other notable work is the multivolume [Das Kapital]?.

The Communist Manifesto outlined a political and economic philosophy later dubbed Marxism after its creator. After Marx's death, the idealistic visions of Marxism were transformed by Vladimir Lenin into Leninism?, and this in turn was used by Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong to create their own political philosophies. In the 1920's and 30's, a group of dissident Marxists created a school that esposed the ideas of [critical theory]? (unrelated to Critical philosophy), railing against many of those who supposedly followed Marx's ideas.