Life
Karl Heinrich Marx worked for many different things such as philosophy, journalist, but especially as a revolutionary socialist who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 181 in Trier, Germany. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after working as an editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife moved to Paris, a place full of radical thoughts. He became a revolutionary communist and got a relationship between his collaboratory, Friedrich Engels. Because he was expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They worked and published 'The Communist Manifesto' in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ulitmately disappear with the victory of the proletariat.
In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he spend the rest of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritaul isolation and produced his most important body of Work, 'Das Kapital.'
In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife in 1881, and one of his daughters. he died on March 14 1883.
His Idea
Marx's theories about society, economics and politics, known as Marxism, hold that society progresses through the dialectic of class struggle. He was critical of the current socio-economic form of society, capitalism, which he called the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie," believing it to be run by the wealthy middle and upper classes purely for their own benefit, and predicted that, like previous socioeconomic systems, it would produce internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and he replaced by a new system, Socialism.
Influence
Marx's ideas and the ideology of Marxism began to exert a major influence on socialist movements shortly after his death. Revolutionary socialist goverments following Marxist concepts took power in a variety of countries in the 20th century, leading to the formation of those socialist states such as the Soviet Union in 1922 and the People's Republic of China in 1949.
