Karl Marx

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

Early work on human alienation under capitalist production and labor

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx

German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary whose analysis of capitalism and historical materialism transformed world history. The Communist Manifesto announced the class struggle; Das Kapital analyzed the mechanisms of exploitation. His ideas inspired revolutions across the globe and remain the most discussed theory of society in the modern era.

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