Karl Marx: Theoretical Founder of Scientific Socialism

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher, economist, social and political theorist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. In collaboration with Friedrich Engels, he developed modern socialist and communist thought, analyzing class struggle, historical materialism, and the alienation and exploitation of workers under capitalism. In 1848, he published The Communist Manifesto with Engels, and in 1867, he published the first volume of his major work, Das Kapital. He had a profound influence on subsequent Marxism, socialist movements, and communist movements.

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Year	Karl Marx
1818	Birth of Karl Marx (Period: May 5, 1818, Location: Trier, Germany)
1835	Studies at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1835–1841, Location: Bonn and Berlin, Germany)
1841	Obtaining a Doctorate at the University of Jena (Karl Marx, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1841, Location: Jena, Germany)
1842	Activities at the Rheinische Zeitung (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1842–1843, Location: Cologne, Germany)
1843	Relocation to Paris and Beginning of Collaboration with Engels (Karl Marx, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1843–1845, Location: Paris, France) Marriage (Karl Marx, Jenny von Westphalen, Age: 25 years old, Period: June 19, 1843, Location: Bad Kreuznach, Germany (Civil and Church Marriage Conducted Here))
1845	Communist Movement in Brussels (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1845–1848, Location: Brussels, Belgium)
1848	Revolutions of 1848 (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1848–1849, Location: Prussia, Berlin, etc.) Publication of the Communist Manifesto (Age: 29 years old, Period: February 1848, Location: London, UK) Editing the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (Age: 30 years old, Period: June 1848 – May 1849, Location: Cologne, Germany)
1849	Relocation to London and Economics Studies (Karl Marx, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1849–1860s, Location: London, UK) Marx's Cologne Trial (Age: 30 years old, Period: February 1849, Location: Cologne, Germany) Closure of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung and Marx's Expulsion from Germany (Age: 30 years old, Period: May–August 1849, Location: Cologne and Prussia, Germany)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: United States of America)
1864	Participation in the International Workingmen's Association (Age: 45 years old, Period: c. 1864–1872, Location: Europe, Centered around London, UK)
1867	Publication of Capital, Volume I (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1867, Location: Hamburg, Germany)
1870	Franco-Prussian War (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1870–1871, Location: France, Germany, etc.)
1871	Writing The Civil War in France (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1871, Location: London, UK) Paris Commune (Age: 52 years old, Period: March–May 1871, Location: Paris, France)
1875	Writing Critique of the Gotha Programme (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1875, Location: Related to Gotha, Germany)
1883	Death of Karl Marx (Age: 64 years old, Period: March 14, 1883)

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liberalism	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Ernst Moritz Arndt Friedrich Ludwig Weidig Georg Büchner Friedrich Hecker Gustav Struve Robert Blum
German Empire	Otto von Bismarck Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Helmuth von Moltke Albrecht von Roon Albrecht von Bismarck Friedrich Wilhelm IV Friedrich III Leo von Caprivi
Musical Revolution	Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Johannes Brahms Felix Mendelssohn Robert Alexander Schumann Richard Wagner Anton Bruckner Johann Baptist Strauss
Marxism	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Ferdinand Lassalle August Bebel Eduard Bernstein Wilhelm Liebknecht Clara Zetkin

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