History Hub presents a brief biography of Karl Marx from beginning to end, whose remarkable story impacts our lives even today. Karl Heinrich Marx had a very rough life from having his works outlawed ...

In the opening lines of this book Michael Heinrich quotes from an 1868 letter in which Karl Marx mentions a publisher’s request for a biography. “Not only did I not send one”, said Marx, “I did not ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Keir Hardie founded, served as MP and led both the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and the… The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (1925) M. Beer Part of ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… Brings together translations of Marx's most important texts ...

Karl Marx died in 1883. In the more than 20 biographies written about him, most depict his final years as spent quietly waiting to die. Certainly he had enough personal and family health problems to ...

Greatness and Illusion by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones places Marx in his 19th century context, thus distinguishing between Marx the man and Marxism the movement. Professor Stedman Jones says: “When ...

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist ...

Karl Marx did not know what we know: he did not know that he was Karl Marx. Had this knowledge been available to him, it would have consoled him during the many moments when he wondered whether his ...

As a child of the Cold War, I retain a reflexive disdain for Marxism, an ideology I believe negates the better angels of mankind’s nature while arming totalitarian zealots with a seductive gospel to ...

Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background. That background was known to all his friends, and Marx gave no sign of wishing to deny it. But even his daughter Eleanor, who studied ...