Karl Marx - Germany

1818 - 1883 (aged 65)

Marx was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of political as well as social issues;

He is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the Communist Manifesto (1848): �The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles�. Marx believed that like all other socioeconomic systems, capitalism will be displaced by communism, a classless society after another transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

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