Karl Marx

Tags: Philosopher.

Karl Heinrich Marx (German pronunciation: [kaːɐ̯l ˈhaɪnʀɪç ˈmaːɐ̯ks] 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher economist sociologist historian journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx’s work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought.

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birth date

1818-05-05

birth place

Trier, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation, Prussia

death date

1883-03-14

death place

London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

era

19th-century philosophy

influenced

Marxists

influenced by

Voltaire, Adam Smith, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, David Ricardo, Epicurus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Justus von Liebig, Robert Owen, Maximilien de Robespierre, Moses Hess, William Shakespeare, Giambattista Vico, Constantin Pecqueur, Charles Fourier, Ludwig Feuerbach, Max Stirner, Baron d'Holbach, Claude Adrien Helvétius, François Guizot, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Darwin

LCCN Id

n/79/6935

main interest

Class conflict, Natural science, Philosophy, Labor relations, Sociology

notableIdea

Labor theory of value, The Communist Manifesto, Class conflict, Marx's theory of alienation, Historical materialism, Das Kapital, Surplus value, Marxism

philosophicalSchool

Materialism, Socialism, Communism, Marxism

region

German philosophy, Western philosophy