Karl Marx was born in Trier, Prussia in 1818. He received a doctorate in philosophy at the age of twenty-three. His early work was heavily influenced by David Ricardo and Adam Smith. His most famous work, (co-written with Friedrich Engels), "The Communist Manifesto", was published in 1848. In this work, Marx and Engels established the principles upon which Lenin and Trotsky created political communism..
According to Marx, history was a series of class struggles between the owners of capital and the workers. An inevitable consequence of the capitalist system, according to Marx, is an ever-increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few of the owners of capital, which at some critical point will lead to a revolution and from this, there will exist a classless society.
In his famous work, "Capital" he highlights the four stages through which many societies pass through: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and communism.
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