Karl Marx

Introduction:-

Karl Marx, full name Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, Economist, Historian, Author, Journalist, Sociologist, and Political theorist. He was born on 5th May 1818 and expired on March 14, 1883, he is popular for his strategies and theories on capitalism and communism. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (German philosopher) disclosed the book 'the communist manifesto' in the year 1848 and he composed the book, Das Kapital, he is very influential in the space of sociology, political economy. 

Karl Marx's early life, 

He was born in Trier, Germany, a town part of the kingdom of Prussia's province of the lower Rhine, back then. He was from a rich family, his father had secular teaching & education and he was a prosperous and successful lawyer and he followed Judaism. Karl Marx was ethnically but not religiously Jewish. Out of the nine children Karl Marx was the eldest son after his brother's death. The place where Karl Marx used to study promoted liberal ideas and back then there was an absolute monarchy. The king said nothing like this would be tolerated and hence, in 1835 the school was raided. His father wanted Karl Marx to become a lawyer and study law but he had a lot of curiosity and attraction in philosophy and therefore he wished to review philosophy. But he obeyed his father and studied law and after that, he studied philosophy at the University of Bonn in Germany itself. He was truly serious about his studies and life. 

After seven years of engagement with Jenny Von Westphalen (An educated baroness of the Prussian ruling class who had known Karl Marx since childhood) on 19th June 1843, they were married in a protestant synagogue in Kreuznach. In October 1836, Karl Marx went to Berlin, Germany, to receive his degree of law. In May 1838 his father passed away and resulting in a scarcity of wealth. Marx shifted to cologne in 1842, where he became a journalist, writing for the revolutionary newspaper Rheinische Zeitung (Rheinland news), conveying his early life on socialism and his interest which developed in economics. He became co-editor of the radical Parisian newspaper Deutsch-Franzosische-Jahrbucher, he wrote on 2 topics- 'Engel's philosophy and on 'the Jewish'. but the administration prohibited it. Hence, in October 1843 he and his wife moved to Paris. On the 28th of August, he met Friedrich Engels and had a lifelong partnership and friendship. Both of them were working together on a criticism of the philosophic impressions of his companion Bruno Bauer.

When he stayed in Paris, Karl Marx was immersed in an intensive study of political economy. The study of political economy is a study that Marx would maintain for the rest of his existence and it would occur in a major economic book with 3 volume series known as 'Capital'. An overview of marxism had for sure been constructed in his mind. In 1845 after obtaining a request from the Prussian king, the French government shut down Vorwärtz!, With the interior minister, François Guizot, deporting Marx from France at this point where Marx went to Brussels, where Marx strived to proceed his examination upon capitalism and political economy. 

He was unable to keep up in France or shift to Germany he concluded to shift to Brussels in Belgium in February 1945. Yet to remain in Belgium, the government had a circumstance, he had to guarantee not to circulate anything on the content of politics. In Brussels, he was related with other exiled socialists across Europe. In April 1945, Engels moved from Barmen, Germany to Brussels in order to unite with Marx and the growing cadre of the member of the league. After achieving the German ideology he turned to the work that he was planned to analyze his position respecting the theories and tactics of a truly revolutionary proletarian's activity operating from the perspective of truly scientific materialist doctrine. The work was aimed at distinguishing the utopian socialist and Marx's socialist philosophy. This was the ideal of the new book that he was scheduling, but to get the copy past the government censors he named the publication 'The poverty of philosophy' (1847) 

These books arranged the establishment for his and Engels's most well-known work of political pamphlets that is commonly known as 'Communist Manifesto'.

The communist manifesto leads out the happiness of the new communist league, no longer a confidential community. The communist league expected to give rise to seeks and intentions clear to the extensive public rather than hiding his opinion and attitude as the 'league of the just' has been. It goes on to evaluate the opposition that Marx alleged arising in the flickers of interest between the Bourgeoisie (the wealthy capitalist class (and the proletariat (industrial working class). 

Later that year Europe underwent and suffered a cycle of protest, rebellions, and brutal and severe upheavals that were known as 'the revolutions of 1848'.

Although, Marx had consumed liquor before he entered the Trier Tavern Club: drinking society in the 1830s after he had joined the club he began to drink more heavily and went on with to do so throughout his entire life. Marx was plagued by poor health, Karl Marx died on March 14, 1883, when he was 64, after succumbing to bronchitis.

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