Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Early Background
Born in Trier, Germany in 1818
Died in London in 1883
Father - Heinrich Marx lawyer
Mother - Henriette Presburg
Humboldt-University
University of Jena
University of Bonn
Middle Class
Contributions
Have and Have Nots
Historical change was caused by a series of class struggles.
Capitalism describes an economic system in which the means of production (such as factories) are privately owned.
Marxism: The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.