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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Trier, Germany
  • PLACE OF DEATH: London, England
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Revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of socialism.


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Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. In 1848 he published (with Friedrich Engels) The Communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement's most important book, Das Kapital. These writings and others by Marx and Engels form the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism.

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