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INTERNATIONAL
KARL HEINRICH MARX
1818-1883

Born on May 5,1818 in the city of Trier, Gemany. Originally a student of law, MARX changed the course of his studies to philosophy under the influence of LUDWIG FEUERBACH and the young Hegelian movement. Because of his revolutionary activities, MARX was forced to travel from one country to another and spent many years of his life a political exile from Germany, Holland and France. MARX ultimately took his residence in London.

In 1844, while in Paris, MARX came to know FREDERICH ENGELS. There grew up a friendship between them and this led to a close collaboration between the two in political activity as well as in research and writing.

In his lifetime MARX was regarded as the unquestioned leader of the working class movement. Both modern scientific socialism and communism stem from KARL MARX. From HEGEL he got the idea of 'dialectic', i.e., the idea that progress comes about as a result of an interaction between opposites. From FEUERBACH he learned that it is not God who creates man, but it is man who creates God. From the French socialist movement he got the idea of socialism. He got ideas from English economists too.

In 1848, together with ENGELS he authored and published THE MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNSIT PARTY for the COMMUNIST LEAGUE founded by them. MARX's analysis of capitalism found a distinct shape in his work "DAS KAPITAL" (CAPITAL). Along with ENGELS and on his own, MARX wrote quite a number of books. MARX showed that under capitalism the social product is appropriated by individual capitalist and this contradiction will inevitably lead to another social revolution for its solution giving birth to socialism which will move towards communism. The teachings of MARX and ENGELS were later elaborated by LENIN and adapted to the conditions presented by imperialism. The theories thus propounded by MARX, ENGELS and LENIN are, as a whole, known as MARXISM - LENINISM.

MARX was instrumental in founding the International Workingmen's Association in 1864 and guided it through six congresses. Thus MARX was a philosopher and revolutionary who believed that to offer explanation of this world was not enough and what was necessary was to change it.

MARX died in London on March 13, 1883.