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Karl Marx
(1818-1883)
Who Was Karl Marx?
Karl Marx began exploring sociopolitical theories at university among the Young Hegelians. He became a journalist, and his socialist writings would get him expelled from Germany and France.
In 1848, he published The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and was exiled to London, where he wrote the first volume of Das Kapital and lived the remainder of his life.
Early Life
Karl Heinrich Marx was one of nine children born to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx in Trier, Prussia.
Karl marx contribution to sociology
His father was a successful lawyer who revered Kant and Voltaire, and was a passionate activist for Prussian reform. Although both parents were Jewish with rabbinical ancestry, Karl’s father converted to Christianity in 1816 at the age of 35.
This was likely a professional concession in response to an 1815 law banning Jews from high society.
He was baptized a Lutheran, rather than a Catholic, which was the predominant faith in Trier, because he “equated Protes
