Karl Marx was born Prussian Rhineland, present-day Germany, on May 5, 1818.
German philosopher, intellectually trained by Baron Ludwing von Wesrphalen.
His family was of Jewish descent, his father converted to Protestantism influencing him.
At the age of seventeen, he began his career in law at the University of Bonn.
On 1841 He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Berlin, greatly influenced by Hegel.
He began writing for a radical liberal newspaper, quickly becoming a boss. The newspaper was closed due to the political views of Marx.
On 1843 he married and moved to Paris where he continued to work on Hegel’s ideas, focusing on the study of English politics and French socialism. There he meets Engels – Socialist, critic of the working class – and this is how he becomes aware of the misery that enveloped the working class. Both had different and very defined personalities, Marx tended to be a disorderly intellectual, devoted to his family, and an abstract thinker. Engels, on the other hand, was practical, negotiator and womanizer. But he helped Marx financially so that he could devote himself fully to his intellectual and political work; He also collaborated in the production of books and they worked together in political organizations; then becoming, Engels, the main bearer of Marxist theory.
On 1845Karl Marx was expelled from France because of the government’s intolerance of some of his writings. But his radicalism increased in great proportions, making him become an important member of the international labor movement.
He joined the Communist League and wrote, there, in 1848, the “Communist Manifesto “, where he overturned his goals and beliefs.
1849 He moved to London dedicating himself to the study of the capitalist system.
1852 He begins to study the conditions of the workers, resulting in his three volumes of the work “El Capital “of the same.
1853 He joined the International and returned to his political activities. On 1876 this movement disintegrates.
Many believe that Marx’s intellectual capacity weakened in the last decade of his life, due to his illness, his, now, sixty years and the misunderstanding of his thinking.
1877 Already very ill, he took refuge in the home. On 1881 his wife passed away and in 1883 her daughter, that probably led to the process of her own death on March 14, 1883.
Marxism as philosophy: It is understood as a kind of criticism of idealistic philosophy and mechanistic materialism. His main figure was Hegel.
Marxism can be considered in Marx as a traditional philosophy, since his criticism contained a conception of the world that proposed to achieve a rational clarification of consciousness, enclosing a culture and the place that man should occupy in the world.
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1844 Economic and philosophical manuscripts.
1845 Thesis on Feuerbach.
1845 Wage labor and capital.
1848 (with Engels) Manifesto of the Communist Party.
1850 (with Engels) Circular from the Central Committee to the Communist League.
1851/1852 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Luis Bonaparte.
1858 [Simón] Bolívar and Ponte.