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Karl Marx (1818–1883)

Author of The Communist Manifesto

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Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena. He was an editor of socialist periodicals and a key figure in the Working Man's Association. Marx co-wrote his show more best-known work, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), with his friend, Friedrich Engels. Marx's most important work, however, may be "Das Kapital" (1867), an analysis of the economics of capitalism. He died on March 14, 1883 in London, England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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    #1 Karl Marx, 1818-1883 - Capital
    #2 Marx, Karl 1897-1985, composer - Neue Lieder
    #3 Marx, Karl 1897-1966, Journalist

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Works by Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto (1848) 14,990 copies
The Marx-Engels Reader (1972) 2,855 copies
Das Kapital (1861) 1,667 copies
The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach (1932) — Author — 719 copies
Early Writings (1963) 604 copies
The Portable Karl Marx (1983) 554 copies
The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) 488 copies
Selected Writings (1994) 448 copies
Karl Marx: Selected Writings (1977) 445 copies
Value, Price and Profit (1900) 314 copies
Wage-Labour and Capital (1967) 267 copies
On Religion (1957) 257 copies
Capital and Other Writings (1777) 241 copies
Surveys from Exile (1973) 180 copies
Selected Works (1958) 172 copies
On Literature and Art (1947) 110 copies
On the Jewish Question (1843) 93 copies
Marx on Economics (1961) 89 copies
An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln (2011) — Contributor; Author — 74 copies
The Essential Left (1960) 72 copies
The Woman Question (1951) — Author — 68 copies
On Colonialism (1965) 63 copies
El Capital (1984) 56 copies
Revolution and War (2009) 54 copies
The Political Writings (2019) 52 copies
Karl Marx: A Reader (1986) — Author; Author — 49 copies
A World Without Jews (1959) 45 copies
O Capital - Livro 1 (2013) 34 copies
Letters of Karl Marx (1979) 34 copies
Articles on Britain (1775) 33 copies
The Karl Marx library (1971) 26 copies
Marx Selections (The Great Philosophers Series) (1988) — Author — 25 copies
Selected Essays (2007) 25 copies
Cartas sobre el capital (1974) 24 copies
Werke 2: 1844 bis 1846 (1957) 23 copies
La Comuna de París (1980) 23 copies
Letters to Dr. Kugelmann (1934) 22 copies
Capital - In Manga! (2012) 22 copies
Antología (2002) 20 copies
Las crisis del capitalismo (2009) 20 copies
Marx : Oeuvres, tome 1 (1963) 19 copies
Karl Marx (1956) 18 copies
On the First International (1973) 16 copies
Herr Vogt (1982) 15 copies
CAPITAL, EL MANGA (2013) 15 copies
Selected Works, Vol. 2 (1976) 14 copies
Människans frigörelse (1995) 14 copies
Philosophie (1994) 13 copies
Karl Marx : texter i urval (2003) 13 copies
Kapital 2 . Cilt (2007) 13 copies
Genesis of capital (1924) 13 copies
Gesammelte Werke (2016) 13 copies
Scritti sull'arte (1971) 13 copies
Werke. Bd. 7 (1990) 13 copies
Liberdade de Imprensa (1998) 12 copies
Kapital Cilt:1 (2012) 12 copies
Revolución en España (1939) 12 copies
Early texts (1971) 12 copies
Os Pensadores - Marx (1996) 11 copies
Obras escogidas 10 copies
Het communistisch Manifest (1976) 10 copies
De brieven van Karl Marx (1981) 9 copies
Oeuvres, tome 2 (1966) 9 copies
Ten Classics of Marxism (1940) 9 copies
Manoscritti matematici (1983) 9 copies
Opere scelte 8 copies
La España revolucionaria (1854) 8 copies
Marx's Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865 (2015) — Author — 8 copies
Werke. Bd. 5 8 copies
Texts on Method (1975) 7 copies
Karl Marx dictionary (1965) 7 copies
Brev i urval (1972) 7 copies
Marx. Philosophie jetzt. (1996) 7 copies
On Communist Society (1975) 7 copies
Elogio del crimen (2008) 7 copies
Marx i ett band (1974) 7 copies
Value: Studies (1976) 6 copies
Teoría económica (1976) 6 copies
Werke. Bd. 27. [Briefe] (2000) 6 copies
Ausgewählte Werke (1988) 6 copies
A ideologia alemã I (1987) 6 copies
Werke. Bd. 34. [Briefe] (2000) 6 copies
Cologne Communist Trial (1971) 6 copies
Critica dell'anarchismo (1972) 6 copies
Obras escogidas. Vol. 1 (2016) 6 copies
ˆLe ‰macchine (1990) 5 copies
The Socialist Revolution (1978) 5 copies
The American Journalism of Marx & Engels (1966) — Author — 5 copies
Cina 5 copies
Scorpion und Felix (1992) 5 copies
L'argent danse pour toi (2010) 5 copies
Het kapitaal Deel II (2011) 5 copies
Apital Manga Cilt 1 (2009) 5 copies
Sobre la religión I (1979) 5 copies
Marx-Engels i kamp (1972) 5 copies
Nova Gazeta Renana (2010) 5 copies
Werke. Bd. 33. [Briefe] (1984) 5 copies
Lord Palmerston (2017) 4 copies
Parijse manuscripten (2023) 4 copies
Over het anarchisme (1975) 4 copies
Werke. Band 23 (1998) 4 copies
Udvalgte skrifter (1976) 4 copies
Über Kultur, Ästhetik, Literatur (1973) — Author — 4 copies
Το κεφάλαιο (1982) 4 copies
Staatstheorie (1988) 4 copies
El Sindicalismo (1976) 4 copies
El dios dinero (2017) 4 copies
Kapital und Politik (2008) 4 copies
Communistisch manifest (2021) 4 copies
Love Poems of Karl Marx (1977) 4 copies
Etudes philosophiques (1976) 4 copies
Felsefe Incelemeleri (2013) 4 copies
La Revolución española (2017) 4 copies
El capital (III) (1986) 3 copies
Merce e denaro 3 copies
Werke Band 40 (1985) 3 copies
El capital, IV (1986) 3 copies
ESCRITOS FICCIONAIS (2018) 3 copies
O Capital Livro 3, vol. 4 (2008) 3 copies
Manuscrits de 1857-1858 (1980) 3 copies
Obras escogidas. Vol. 2 (2016) 3 copies
Oeuvres choisies 1 & 2 (1963) 3 copies
Obras escogidas. (1975) 3 copies
Sulla libertà di stampa (1990) 3 copies
L'Internazionale operaia (1994) 3 copies
Simón Bolívar (2001) 3 copies
Das große Lesebuch (2008) 3 copies
Malthus 3 copies
Breviario (2003) 3 copies
Bolivar y ponte (1999) 3 copies
I programfrågor (1982) 3 copies
Sulla scienza 3 copies
Ierland, Eiland in Oproer (1977) 2 copies
Correspondencia 1868-1895 (1981) 2 copies
Religión (2004) 2 copies
Feuerbach (2004) 2 copies
La scoperta dell'economia (1990) 2 copies
Werke, Schriften (2013) 2 copies
Etnoloji Defterleri (2013) 2 copies
Das Kapital, Kurzausgabe (1999) 2 copies
Über Ludwig Feuerbach (1972) — Author — 2 copies
Opere vol. 2 2 copies
Textos 2 copies
España revolucionaria (1990) 2 copies
Russia 2 copies
Sull'Irlanda 2 copies
Obras escogidas (Tomo II) (1981) 2 copies
Opere vol. 1 2 copies
O Capital, v.2 2 copies
O Capital, v.1 2 copies
Karl Marx (2000) 2 copies
Sul Risorgimento italiano (2011) 2 copies
India 2 copies
Estranged Labor 2 copies
Doğu sorunu: Türkiye (1977) 2 copies
La sociedad comunista (1976) 2 copies
O Capital Tomo II (1992) 2 copies
El Libro rojo y negro (1977) 2 copies
Lettere 1874-1879 (2008) 2 copies
O capital, v.5 (1989) 2 copies
Religión ideario (2003) 2 copies
A mercadoria (2006) 2 copies
Articles on India (1951) 2 copies
Marx i ett bind (1973) 2 copies
Manuscrits de 1861-1863 (1980) 2 copies
Obras escogidas (1979) 1 copy
Ucret Fiyat ve Kar (2017) 1 copy
Manifesten 1 copy
Poemas (Clásicos) (2000) 1 copy
Selected Writings (1956) 1 copy
O wychowaniu 1 copy
La Marchandise (2022) 1 copy
O języku 1 copy
O Capital Tomo VII (2016) 1 copy
Karl Marx 1 copy
Spisy (1989) 1 copy
Din Üzerine (2019) 1 copy
Le Opere 1 copy
Marx 1 copy
ÆSkuverk 1 copy
CAPITAL Y CRISIS (1986) 1 copy
El Capital. Volum IV (2018) 1 copy
Manifeste (2006) 1 copy
Señor Vogt (1974) 1 copy
Escorpión y Felix (2012) 1 copy
Selected Writings (2010) 1 copy
Das Kapital 1.2 (2009) 1 copy
Ecrits sur la religion (2013) 1 copy
Verker i utvalg (1976) 1 copy
The Fenians 1 copy
História 1 copy
Gongsandang seon-eon (2002) 1 copy
BİYOGRAFİ 1 copy
A Socialist Reader (2014) 1 copy
Yabancılaşma (2013) 1 copy
Critique de Malthus (1978) 1 copy
Conto su di te per il vino: lettere a Engels (2018) — Author — 1 copy
Le capital financier (2012) 1 copy
La crise (1998) 1 copy
De America 1 copy
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Opere vol. 9 1 copy
Sosyoloji ve Felsefe (2015) 1 copy
L'UOMO FA L'UOMO (1976) 1 copy

Associated Works

Marx's Concept of Man (1961) 511 copies
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 398 copies
Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) (2002) — Contributor — 372 copies
The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (1956) — Contributor — 327 copies
Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy (1886) — Contributor, some editions — 221 copies
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 220 copies
Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (1996) — Contributor — 205 copies
Western Philosophy: An Anthology (1996) — Author, some editions — 184 copies
The Portable Victorian Reader (1972) — Contributor — 176 copies
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962) — Contributor — 141 copies
Cultural Resistance Reader (2002) — Contributor — 140 copies
The Utopia Reader (1999) — Contributor — 111 copies
A golden treasury of Jewish literature (1937) — Contributor — 75 copies
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 72 copies
Reader in Marxist Philosophy (1963) — Contributor — 61 copies
Meeting of Minds: First Series (1978) — Subject — 57 copies
Classics of Modern Political Theory : Machiavelli to Mill (1996) — Contributor — 48 copies
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (2008) — Contributor — 37 copies
Political philosophy (1965) — Contributor — 33 copies
Philosophy now : an introductory reader (1972) — Contributor — 24 copies
Marx and the French Revolution (1986) — Contributor — 20 copies
Bakoenin : een biografie in tijdsdocumenten (1977) — Contributor — 19 copies
Philosophical Issues: A Contemporary Introduction (1972) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Classics of Marxism, Volume One (2011) — Contributor — 12 copies
Utopie Eindexamencahier Havo vanaf 2007 (2006) — Contributor — 11 copies
Theories of the Labor Movement (1987) — Contributor — 7 copies
MARXISMO Y EL DERRUMBE DEL CAPITALISMO, EL (1970) — Author — 4 copies
Makers of the twentieth century: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (1968) — some editions — 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1818-05-05
Date of death
1883-03-14
Burial location
London, England, UK
Gender
male
Nationality
Prussia
Country (for map)
Germany
Cause of death
bronchitis and pleurisy
Places of residence
Germany
France
Belgium
UK
Education
University of Jena
Occupations
journalist
Organizations
First International
Short biography
Marx and his collaborator Engels were socialist activists who founded scientific socialism though the application of dialectical materialism onto history.
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#1 Karl Marx, 1818-1883 - Capital
#2 Marx, Karl 1897-1985, composer - Neue Lieder
#3 Marx, Karl 1897-1966, Journalist

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Visão surpreendente do filósofo alemão em sua tese de doutorado. Aborda a diferença entre as filosofias de Demócrito e Epicuro, revelando uma faceta pouco conhecida. Essa defesa de Epicuro, permeada pela luta contra a repressão política, é precursora de sua crítica profunda à sociedade burguesa.
 
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luizzmendes | Mar 16, 2024 |
A whole lot of the historical background of this long essay went over my head- I must admit that my knowledge of 19th century French politics isn’t exactly broad. I came to this book from a podcast called “The Age of Napoleon” which deals with the subject of this book’s much more famous and consequential uncle. One episode features a discussion of this work by Marx and mentions that it may be a little hard for contemporary readers to “get” because Marx was writing about current events, and assumed that his readers would be up to date on the latest news coming out of France. However, for us, this news has been watered down by an extra century and a half of intervening history.

Even coming in so ignorant, there’s a lot to be had from this book. Something I never hear mentioned is how fun Marx is to read. He was a extremely talented writer (or polemicist, depending on your perspective) with great skill for a turn of phrase or an biting piece of wit to draw into contrast the absurdity of the social phenomena he is describing. Its also refreshing to read a brilliant thinker speaking with such confidence and passion about these issues - when reading Marx you feel like the right answer is so clear, so unavoidable, only by deliberate misdirection have we missed the mark. This is partially 19th century intellectual hubris, but I think it does show how impotent modern political discourse has become. It’s still shocking how radical his opinions were, and how so long ago he was presciently able to diagnose many problems we are still struggling to understand today. When you actually read Marx, you realize how misconstrued he has become, and how different the contemporary “left” in the USA is from the agenda he is putting forward. Case in point is his criticisms of taxes towards the back of the essay, which runs totally counter to the depiction of “liberals” in mainstream American discourse as spendthrifts always ready to raise taxes on the hard working people. In this book Marx articulates much the same criticism of big government as an American style conservative might, albeit with a much different endgame in mind. What were these taxes for? What were they going towards supporting? Would they actually improve the status of the working class or only to fund further distractions and misdirections to make it seem like the government was actually doing something? (It is after all the ultimate goal of classic Marxism to dissolve the state after the means of production has been secured by the workers) Always basing his work in hardcore research and study (evinced by the thousands of hours spent researching Das Kapital in the libraries of London), Marx, despite his reputation as an ideologue, always seeks the no bullshit, practical path forward. In this book we see him rail against meaningless political grandstanding in the service of obfuscating revolutionary energy. What Louis Napoleon was able to do, and what sets him directly in Marx’s sights, was skillfully manipulate (or take advantage of) the political winds blowing after the stymied revolutions of 1848. By playing all sides against each other, and using the powers of office to put forward the most pandering political projects that would ultimately do nothing to improve the situation of the working class, Napoleon III was able to enrich himself, his cronies, and the entire bourgeois class that profited from “stability” at any cost.
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hdeanfreemanjr | 11 other reviews | Jan 29, 2024 |
This is one of those great books that takes feelings and intuitions you’ve had your whole life and explains them better than you ever could have. These kind of books also can be ones that you put off reading forever because they are so ingrained in our culture that they can seem obvious. In my experience, it’s usually worth going back to read that kind of book, as I’m often surprised at how vibrant is the spark of genius that made it a classic in the first place.

If you want to be cliché, you can criticize this book for being boring or pedantic, but I think that would be underestimating the task that Marx is undertaking. Sure there are parts that are dry, but Marx is encouraging us to look at society from a granular level. After all, many of the concepts he is critiquing or outright refuting are taught to most of us when we are still children. What is money? What is a job? Why are some people rich and some people poor? If a child asks you this you may be tempted to fall back on some hollow explanation, or even just pat them on the head and say “that’s just how it is”. Of course what makes Marx a visionary is he isn’t content with either of these options. You can see why Marx would feel compelled to flesh out his ideas with mathematical formulas and endless examples; he knew that his critics would come at him exactly with this kind of ammunition. And yet the most compelling parts of this book are the simple concepts that make you think, why did I never see it that way before? If you get through the first few hundreds pages of him explaining what is a commodity, you will realize it boils down to this: money is a physical representation of a relationship between people, no more no less. Therefore the price of a given thing is based upon how much time was needed to bring that thing into existence, spent by a person or group of people with which you are conjugating a relationship of exchange. As simple as this sounds, it’s a bolt from the blue in a world where we are actively encouraged to forget what money really is. A classic stoner thought is “money isn’t even real”. Of course it is, but it’s definitely not what we’ve all grown up assuming it is. This is just one example of many simple observations in this book that made it so revolutionary.

Another thing to know, is that Marx’s writing is actually full of personality, and sometimes even deigns to a kind of hyperdroll black humor. You can feel his incredulity as he lays out how the capitalist class has (and will) pushed humanity into a new kind of hell, as if he too is shocked and appalled by what he is writing. Some readers may complain that his many examples of contemporaneous abuses by the capitalist class are out of date, but I’d encourage the reader to follow these threads to the present day. We no longer have child labor in the west, but one of capitalism’s strongest points is it’s ability to absorb criticism into itself and find ways to continue making profits. Marx is once again ahead of the curve in having little hope that “regulation” with have any real effect on the real situation. We live in a world now where capitalist abuses are on going, they are just covered with a thick film of what passes for “decency”.
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hdeanfreemanjr | 28 other reviews | Jan 29, 2024 |
Jones does a great job contextualizing the Manifesto beforehand (with a whopping 184-page introduction, not to mention footnotes for the actual text of the Manifesto), and connects the reader to many other philosophers and social theorists in Marx's influential circle. In fact, this edition seems more like a history book than simply another published copy of the Manifesto. As for Marx, his opinions on the harm of capitalism are very well elucidated, but when it comes to his solutions, they are very vague and seem to be merely based on what happened in the French Revolution. His thoughts on capitalism make it all worth it, however, and thus I will move on to his other works, especially [b:Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844|85954|Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844|Karl Marx|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521042866l/85954._SY75_.jpg|82945].… (more)
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