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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Georg Forster, Ludwig Bamberger, Gottfried Kinkel, Rosa Luxemburg, Carl Schurz, Thomas Muntzer, Joseph Weydemeyer, Franz Sigel, Friedrich Hecker, Gustav Struve, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Schapper, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Louis Blenker, Andreas Joseph Hofmann, Robert Blum, Georg Fein, Fritz Anneke, Oswald Ottendorfer, Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, Friedrich Beust, Otto von Corvin, Rudolf Dulon, Louis August Wollenweber, Herman Kiefer, August Thalheimer, Gustav Korner, Ernst Niekisch, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Lorenzo Brentano, Frederick Schaefer, Joseph Moll, Gustav Nikolaus Tiedemann, Leo Jogiches, Johanna Kinkel, Karl Hillebrand, Moritz Wiggers, Ludwig von Rochau, Max Baginski, Franz Umbscheiden, Wilhelm Loewe, Franz Heinrich Zitz, Amalie Hofer, Emil Anneke, Paul Frolich. Excerpt: Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist who developed the socio-political theory of Marxism. His ideas have since played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867-1894), many of which were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels. Born into a wealthy middle class family in Trier, Prussia, Marx went on to study at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836, he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. Following the completion of his studies, he became a journalist in Cologne, writing for a radical newspaper, the Rheinische Zeitung, where he began to use ...
