Karl Marx
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Karl Marx
Perhaps one of today's most influential people of the 19th Century, is the
lifetime, after his death however the
book titled "Das Kapital" (German for Capital), which has
been published in three volumes, (Capital, Volume 1: The Process of Production of
Capital, Volume 2: The Process of Circulation of Capital, and Volume 3: The Process
of Capitalist Production as a Whole) it was based on the unjust behaviours of
capitalism, Marx had argued that employers (bourgeois) made their profits by paying
their workers (referred to as "proletarians") less than the true value of their labour.
Karl Marx, (who was born in Trier, Germany) after completing his studies at
the University of Berlin, Marx became the editor of the "Rheinische Zeitung"
(Newspaper of Rhein (city in North West Germany)), Marx's ideas, and innovations,
began to be recognized as criticism against contemporary political, and social
conditions, as a result he got in trouble with the authorities, and was forced to move.
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Karl Marx's next relocation brought him to Paris, France where he had found his life
long partner Friedrich Engel's, with who he had developed the "Communist
Manifesto", which were the set of core beliefs of Marx and Engle's newest
foundation, scientific socialism (today's communism). The "Communist Manifesto"
was a set of predictions, that started would start with class war, then the overthrow of
capitalism, as Marx had continued to work on perfecting his ideas and, put them into
action, Marx was expelled from his German Citizenship in 1849, the expelsion of
Marx in Germany, had a Chain reaction, which also banished him from France, with
no other choices available to him, Marx, had then moved to London England, where
he was destined to stay for the rest of his life. While in England Marx continued to
devote his time, and continue build on the communistic movement, and came up with
yet another very influential text that was based upon the Civil War in France which
was ironically titled The Civil War in France (1871), analyzed the experience of the
short-lived revolutionary government established in Paris during the Franco-Prussian
War. In this work Marx interpreted the formation and existence of the Commune as a
historical confirmation of his theory that it is necessary for workers to seize political
power by armed insurrection and then to destroy the capitalist state; he hailed the
Commune as "the finally discovered political form under which the economic
emancipation of labour could take place." This theory was explicitly projected in The
Gotha Program (1875; translated 1922): "Between the capitalist and communist
systems of society lie the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into
the other. This corresponds to a political transition period, whose state can be nothing
else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, after Marx's death, the
Marxism Principal was found, which demonstrated the practise of the ideas of Karl
Marx. In a more Philosophical note, Karl Marx had asked one very important question
"How can a society become a classless system where all
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