Question: What do Karl Marx and Christopher Hitchens have in common?

Context articles: Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai
Unhitched (book)
The Young Karl Marx
Political views of Christopher Hitchens
Karl Marx House
Edgar von Westphalen
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Karl Marx

K. Ramakrishna Pillai (1878–1916) was a nationalist writer, journalist, editor, and political activist.
 He edited "Swadeshabhimani" (The Patriot), the newspaper which became a potent weapon against the rule of the British and the erstwhile princely state of Travancore (Kerala, India) and a tool for social transformation.
 His criticism of the Diwan of Travancore, P. Rajagopalachari and the Maharajah led to the eventual confiscation of the newspaper.
 Ramakrishna Pillai was arrested and exiled from Travancore in 1910.
 Vrithantha Pathra Pravarthanam (1912) and Karl Marx (1912) are among his most noted works in Malayalam, Vrithantha Pathra pravarthanam being the first book on journalism in Malayalam and Karl Marx, the first ever biography of Karl Marx in any Indian language.
Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens is a 2013 book about Christopher Hitchens by the British writer Richard Seymour.
 The book focuses on Hitchens's work on religion, his engagement with British politics and his alleged embrace of American imperialism.
 In January 2013, Seymour said of "Unhitched", "It is written in the spirit of a trial ... I do attempt to get a sense of the complexity and gifts of the man, but it is very clearly a prosecution, and you can guess my conclusion."
The Young Karl Marx ("Le jeune Karl Marx") is a 2017 film about Karl Marx directed by Haitian Raoul Peck, co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, and starring August Diehl.
 It was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, from February 9–19, 2017.
Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author, polemicist, debater, and journalist.
 In his youth, he took part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War, joined organisations such as the International Socialists while at university, and began to identify as a socialist.
 After the 11 September attacks, however, Hitchens no longer regarded himself as a socialist, and his political thinking became largely dominated by the issue of defending civilization from terrorists and against the totalitarian regimes that protect them.
 He nonetheless continued to identify as a Marxist, endorsing the materialist conception of history, but believed that Karl Marx had underestimated the revolutionary nature of capitalism.
 He sympathized with libertarian ideals of limited state interference but considered libertarianism not to be a viable system.
 In the 2000 US presidential election, he supported the independent candidate Ralph Nader.
 After 9/11, Hitchens advocated the invasion of Iraq.
 In the 2004 election, he very slightly favored the incumbent Republican President George W. Bush or was neutral, and in 2008 he favored the Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
The Karl Marx House museum (German: "Karl-Marx-Haus" ) is a writer's house museum in Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany).
 In 1818, Karl Marx, the father of modern socialism and communism, was born in the house.
 It is now a museum about Karl Marx's life and writings as well as the history of communism.
Edgar Gerhard Julius Oscar Ludwig von Westphalen (26 March 1819 – 30 September 1890) was a German writer, Communist politician and the brother-in-law of Karl Marx.
 He was the son of Prussian baron Ludwig von Westphalen and his second wife Caroline Heubel.
 Heubel was also the mother of sister Jenny who married Karl Marx.
 Edgar had a step-brother Ferdinand from his father's first marriage.
 The Westphalen and Marx families were neighbors in Trier, with Karl and Edgar being friends and schoolmates.
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought is a 1973 biography of Karl Marx by the political scientist David McLellan.
 The work was republished as "Karl Marx: A Biography" in 1995.
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence is a 1978 book by Gerald Cohen, the culmination of his attempts to reformulate Karl Marx's doctrines of alienation, exploitation, and historical materialism.
 Cohen, who interprets Marxism as a scientific theory of history, applies the techniques of analytic philosophy to the elucidation and defence of Marx's materialist conception of history.
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (German: "Karl Marx.
 Geschichte seines Lebens" ) is a 1918 book about Karl Marx by Franz Mehring, a German historian.
 Considered the classical biography of Marx, the work has been translated into many languages, including Russian (1920), Danish (1922), Hungarian (1925), Japanese (1930), Spanish (1932), and English (1935).
Karl Marx ( ; ] ; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.