KARL MARX
German political theorist and revolutionary. He studied humanities at the Univ. of
Bonn (1835) and law and philosophy at the Univ. of Berlin (1836-41), where he
was exposed to the works of G. W. F. Hegel. Working as a writer in Cologne and
Paris (1842-45), he became active in leftist politics. In Paris he met F. Engels,KARL MARX
German political theorist and revolutionary. He studied humanities at the Univ. of
Bonn (1835) and law and philosophy at the Univ. of Berlin (1836-41), where he
was exposed to the works of G. W. F. Hegel. Working as a writer in Cologne and
Paris (1842-45), he became active in leftist politics. In Paris he met F. Engels,
who would become his lifelong collaborator. Expelled from France in 1845, he
moved to Brussels, where his political orientation matured and he and Engels
made names for themselves through their writings. Marx was invited to join a
secret left-wing group in London, for which he and Engels wrote the Communist
Manifesto......
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