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| name               = Karl Marx
| honorific_suffix   = FRSA<ref>Marx [http://www.calmview2.eu/RSA/CalmViewA/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=RSA%2fSC%2fIM%2f701%2fS1000&pos=9 became a Fellow] of the highly prestigious Royal Society of Arts, London, in 1862.</ref>
| image              = Karl Marx 001.jpg
| image size         = 225px
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| birth_name         = Karl Heinrich Marx
| birth_date         = May 5, 1818
| birth_place        = Trier, [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], [[German Confederation]]
| death_date         = March 14, 1883
| death_place        = London, [[England]]
{{labeldata|Buried|17 March 1883, [[Tomb of Karl Marx]], Highgate Cemetery, [[London]], [[England]]}}
{{labeldata|Residence|[[Germany]], [[France]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]].}}
| nationality        = German, eventually stateless
| occupation         = Journalist, author, economist, revolutionary
| employer           = Newspapers:{{unbulleted indent list|
*1842–1843: ''[[Rheinische Zeitung]]''
*1844: ''[[Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher]]''
*1848–49: ''[[Neue Rheinische Zeitung]]''
*1870–71: ''Pall Mall Gazette''
*1852–62: ''New-York Daily Tribune''}}
| party              = Various, including the [[IWMA]]
| spouse             = [[Jenny von Westphalen]] (Married 19 June 1843, died 2 December 1881)
| children           = 7, including [[Jenny Longuet|Jenny]], [[Laura Marx|Laura]] and [[Eleanor Marx|Eleanor]]
| father             = [[Heinrich Marx]]
| mother             = [[Henriette Pressburg]]
| relatives          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Louise Juta]] (sister)
* [[Edgar Longuet]] (grandson)
* [[Jean Longuet]] (grandson)
* [[Henry Juta]] (nephew)
* [[Frederik Philips]] (cousin)
}}
| thesis_title       = [[The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature]]
}}
'''Karl Marx''' (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, historian, [[Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary socialist]] and founder of [[Marxism]]. He developed [[Historical materialism|historical materialism]], analyzing [[Capitalism|capitalism]] as a system of [[Class struggle|class struggle]] by economic forces, predicting its overthrow by the [[Proletariat|proletariat]] in favor of [[Communism (ideology)|communism]]. He co-authored the [[The Communist Manifesto|Communist Manifesto]] (1848) and [[Das Kapital]] (1867-1894) with his lifelong friend [[Friedrich Engels]]. Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence and resulted in [[Revolution|revolutions]] in many different countries.
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