Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5t Mey 1818 in Trier, Germany – 14t Mairch 1883 in Lunnon, UK) wis a German philosopher and poleitical thinker that wrat aboot economics an politics. Ane o his first beuks wis the Communist Manifesto, written thegither wi Friedrich Engels in 1848. In this beuk thay set oot the ideas an ettles o the Communist muvement for the first time. His theories wis gien the name Marxism efterhaund, baith bi thaim that gree'd wi him an thaim that criticeesed him.

His maist important contreibution is thocht tae be his beuk Das Kapital that wis written ower monie decades; in it he analeesed and criticeesed the system of Caipitalism. For the maist pairt it disagreed wi leiberal economic views an haes led tae gran debates atween its supporters an detractors. Juist ae volume haed been finisht bi the time Marx dee'd; Engels teuk his jots an completit twa mair volumes.

Born in Trier in the Kinrick o Proushie, Marx started his studies at the universities o Bonn, Berlin, an Jena, gettin his doctorate in philosophy frae Jena in 1841. He was a Young Hegelian, influencet by the works o Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, an in his ain works, like The German Ideology an the Grundrisse, he both critiqued an developed Hegel’s ideas. While in Paris in 1844, Marx wrote his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts an met Engels, wha became his closest friend an collaborator. Efter flittin tae Brussels in 1845, the pair war active in the Communist League, an by 1848, they wrate The Communist Manifesto, a pamphlet pittin doon Marx's thoughts an a plan for revolution. After bein expelled from Belgium an Germany, Marx made his way tae Lunnon in 1849, whaur he penned The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte an Das Kapital. In 1864, Marx got involved in the International Workingmen's Association (First International), whaur he tuik on the anarchists led by Mikhail Bakunin. In his Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), he laid doon his thochts on revolution, the state, an the road tae communism. Marx passed away stateless in 1883 an was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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