Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. He was a 19th century communist social philosopher and studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but later took up history, Hegelian philosophy and Feuerbach's materialism. Marx believed in unilinear cultural evolution which treated all human societies as part of a single evolutionary line. He was influenced strongly by anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Early in his life, Marx was editor of a radical newspaper and later reorganized the Communist Leauge. In 1848, Marx's Communist Manifesto was published. This was a book which openly attacked the state as the instigator of poverty and the views possessed by the capitalist class of religion and culture.
Some of the books written by Karl Marx are:
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital : A Critique of Political Economy
Alien Politics : Marxist State Theory Retrieved
The Cambridge Companion to Marx (Cambridge Companions to Philosophers)
Capital (Penguin Classics) Vol 2
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