Marx
was a German social philosopher and revolutionary; a founder of
modern Socialism and Communism along with Friedrich Engels. The
son of a lawyer, he studied law and philosophy; he rejected the
idealism of G.W.F. Hegel but was influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach
and Moses Hess. His editorship (1842–43) of the Rheinische
Zeitung ended when the paper was suppressed. In 1844 he met
Engels in Paris, beginning a lifelong collaboration. With Engels
he wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848) and other works that
broke with the tradition of appealing to natural rights to
justify social reform, invoking instead the laws of history
leading inevitably to the triumph of the working class. Exiled
from Europe after the Revolutions of 1848, Marx lived in London,
earning some money as a correspondent for the New York Tribune
but dependent on Engels's financial help while working on his
monumental work Das Kapital (3 vol., 1867–94), in which he
used Dialectical Materialism to analyze economic and social history;
Engels edited vol. 2 and 3 after Marx's death. With Engels, Marx
helped found (1864) the International Workingmen's Association,
but his disputes with the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin eventually
led to its breakup. Marxism has greatly influenced the development
of socialist thought; further, many scholars have considered Marx
a great economic theoretician and the founder of economic history
and sociology.
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