Karl Marx

Karl Marx Biography

Karl Marx was born in Trier, in the Germany Rhineland, in 1818. Although the majority of people living in Trier were Catholics Marx decided to become a protestant. He also change his name from Herschel to Heinrich, so his full name is Karl Heinrich Marx. His wife name is Jenny von Westphalia their had a six children.

A precocious schoolchild, Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin. After studying law and philosophy in Prussia Germany he being awarded a doctorate by the University Of Jena, he become journalist. Marx was a scholar, economist, and philosopher. Marx hobby to reading, his radical ideas led to successive exiles in Paris, Brussels, and finally London. There Marx spent years to reading, researching, and writing in the British Museum.

Karl Marx was also devastated by the death of his eldest daughter, 1881 from cancer of the bladder. Karl Marx died two months latter on the 14th March, 1883.

He is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of Class Struggles, and opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto. “ The history of all Hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

“ He write Communist Manifesto before the Revolution of 1848. in this book Marx did not invent socialism, he soon dominated the movement, and his theories came to be known as Marxism. He has many a early writing like ; “ Contribution to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy “ , were both written in 1843 and published in the Deutsch-Faranzosische Jahrlucher.

The next book is “ The Economic and Philosophical Manuscript, written in Paris 1844 and the ‘ Theses on Feuerbach” of 1845 remained un published in Marx life time. In 1842 cologne circle this group had it’s own news paper “ The Rhenish Gazette”. The newspaper published an article by Marx where he defended the freedom of the press. The group was impressed by the article an in October 1842. Marx was appointed editor of the newspaper.

With the failure of the revolution Marx moved to London where he remained for the rest of his life. He now concentrated on the study of economics, producing, in 1859, his Contribution to a Critique of political Economy. In the book Marx argued that the superstructure of law, politics, religion, art, and philosophy. Was determined by economic forces.

Marx’s writing and how to apply his concepts to current events and conditions. Moreover, it is important to distinguish between “Marxism” and “ what Marx Believed” . Essentially, people use the word “Marxist” to describe those who rely on Marx’s conceptual language ( e.g. “mode of production”, “class”, “commodity fetishism”) to understand capitalism and the other societies, or to describe those believe that a workers’ revolution as the only means to a communist society.

Marx believed that the communist revolution would take place in advanced industrial societies such as France, Germany and England, but Lenin argued that in the age of imperialism, and due to the “law of uneven development”, where Russia had on the one hand, an antiquated agricultural society, but on the other hand, some of the most up to date industrial concerns, the “chain” might break at its weakest points, that is, in the so-called “backward” countries. Marx through a coherent and scientific theory by restarting its central tenets in the language of analytic philosophy.

Marx argued that is the material world that is real and that our ideas of it are consequences, not causes, of the world. We can analysis about the think he was doing, he though that historically and socially specific ideology prevented people from seeing the material conditions of their lives clearly.

We know about society it’s really important for our life, without society we can not be a good person, Karl Marx published many book can motivated me to understand human history, we must not see it as the story of great individuals or the conflict between states. Instead we must see it as the story of social classes had changed over time but in the 19^th century the most important classes were the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

By the term bourgeoisie Marx meant the owners of the factories and the raw materials which are processed in them. The proletariat, on the other hand, own very little and are forced to sell their labor to the capitalists.

Marx believed that these two classes are not merely different from each other, but also have different interest. He went on to argue that the conflict between these two classes would eventually lead to revolution and the triumph of the proletariat.

Meaning of the society its so important people can understand human story, and how to doing on goodness each other. My brief story about Karl Marx until here. I know that works do not perfect, I and need lecture give me more advise to motivated me more, thanks for your attention.