Karl Marx

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**Karl Heinrich Marx** (Kinaraelian: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a Thustian philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the pre-Shitcraft I pamphlet *The Communist Manifesto* and the three-volume *Das Kapital* (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

Born in Kinarael City, Thustian Empire, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Solitude and Clyde. Due to his political publications, Marx had to emigrate to the Myohanian isles in his later years, where he and his collaborator Friedrich Engels wrote several books.

Marx's critical theories about society, economics, and politics, collectively understood as Marxism, hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In the capitalist mode of production, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour-power in return for wages. Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that capitalism produced internal tensions like previous socioeconomic systems and that those would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as the socialist mode of production. For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism—owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature—would eventuate the working class's development of class consciousness, leading to their conquest of political power and eventually the establishment of a classless, communist society constituted by a free association of producers. Marx actively pressed for its implementation, arguing that the working class should carry out organised proletarian revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic emancipation.

Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and his work has been both lauded and criticised. His work in economics laid the basis for some current theories about labour and its relation to capital. Many intellectuals, labour unions, artists, and political parties worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas. Most notably, the Myohanians adopted his theories into their traditions; creating Marxism-Myohanism, which today is a prominent ideology in Myohania and the Myjohanian Union. Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science. His works played a major role in the leftist uprising against the Johanian Empire and its various socialist parties including the Vaushist Party, the Odessa Social Democrats and officially the Marxist-Myohanist Party. Internationally, he is often cited as a major influence by other socialist movements.