Karl Marx
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Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, and historian and revolutionary, is without a doubt the most influential socialist in the 19th century. Scholars largely ignored him on, his social, economic and political ideas. The original ideas of Marx have often been modified and his meanings adapted to a great variety of political circumstances
Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818. He came from a long line of rabbis on both sides of his family and his father, a man who knew Voltaire and Lessing by heart, had agreed to baptism as a Protestant so that he would not lose his job as one of the most respected lawyers in Trier. (Raddatz 3) At the age of seventeen, Marx enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bonn. At Bonn he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen. The following year Marx's father sent him to the more serious school, University of Berlin where he remained four years, at which time he abandoned his romanticism for the Hegelianism, which ruled in Berlin at the time.
Marx became a member of the Young Hegelian movement. This group, included the theologians Bruno Bauer and David Friedrich Strauss, produced a radical critique of Christianity and, the liberal opposition to the Prussian autocracy. In October 1842 Marx moved into journalism and became editor in Cologne of the influential Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal newspaper backed by industrialists...