Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
is a
philosopher, an economist and a
German revolutionist of the xix
E century. He is the cofounder of the theory of "the
class struggle", with Friedrich Engels.
Obliged to leave
Germany because of his political opinions, Karl Marx takes refuge in Paris,
where it meets in 1844 Friedrich Engels, a German economist. Together, they
decide to make Communism incipient a
scientific theory, but also to put it in practice by organizing an
international movement of the working class.
In 1848, they
publish Proclamation of the Communist
Party, in which the history is presented like a
succession of fights between the dominant classes (called employers)
and the dominated classes ( proletariat).
Exiled in England then in the United States, Karl Marx develops his economic
theory in an immense work, the
Capital.
Its ideas, which are
indicated by the name of Marxism, inspired after its death the
Bolchevism and Communism, as several European socialist currents which play
today still a significant role in the political life.
