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History of Karl Marx

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    The History of Karl Marx

    The Major points of his life
  • Karl Marx is born

    Karl Marx is born

    Karl Marx was born on May 5th, 1818, the son of the lawyer Heinrich Marx and Henriette Pressburg.
  • Karl goes to college

    Karl goes to college

    In October 1835 at the age of 16, Marx traveled to the University of Bonn wishing to study philosophy and literature, but later changed his focus to law instead.
  • Karl switches colleges

    Karl switches colleges

    Karl Marx switches colleges from Bonn to the University of Berlin
  • Karl Graduates

    Karl Graduates

    Karl Marx graduates from the University of Berlin in April of 1841
  • After College

    After College

    After receiving his degree, Marx began writing for the liberal democratic newspaper Rheinische Zeitung, and he became the paper's editor in 1842. The Prussian government banned the paper as too radical the following year. With his new wife, Jenny von Westphalen, Marx moved to Paris in 1843.
  • The First Manifesto

    The First Manifesto

    Karl Marx proposed this new ideology in his Communist Manifesto, which he wrote with Friedrich Engels in 1848. The manifesto emphasized the importance of class struggle in every historical society, and the dangerous instability capitalism created.
  • Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

    Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

    In 1867 Marx published his first volume of Das Kapital.
  • The Birth of a Tyrant

    The Birth of a Tyrant

    Josif Stalin is born in December 21st, 1879
  • Karl Marx dies

    Karl Marx dies

    Karl Marx died at the age of 65 in his home in Maitland Park, London.