Who is Karl Marx?
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist best known for his philosophy known as Marxism. The basic philosophy behind Marxism is an anti-Capitalism stance that is against materialism and differing social classes. Karl Marx spent most of his life studying and writing about history, economics and politics. Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Prussia on 5 May, 1818. His parents, Heinrich Marx and Henriette Presbury Marx, had six other children but only three of these — Jenny, Laura and Eleanor — lived beyond childhood. Heinrich Marx was a Jewish lawyer, but converted to Lutheranism because he wasn’t allowed to practice law as a Jew. Karl Marx was christened a Lutheran at age six. Karl Marx earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1841 from the University of Berlin. Marx’s philosophical views were heavily influenced by Georg Hegel’s work and by the Young Hegelians. The Young Hegelians were dedicated to trying to radically change Prussian autocracy and organized religion. Marx thought t
