Karl Heinrich Marx was born and raised in Trier, Germany, May 5th, 1818. His Parents were Hirschel and Henrietta Marx. Karl was second to the oldest of seven brothers and sisters. Other than his older sister, Sophie, Karl was neither close to his other brothers or sisters, nor to his mother. Karl found her simple-minded and incapable of grasping more than her daily domestic concerns. His attachment to Sophie did not last past his youth. He had a far better relationship with his father, who was very proud of him. Hirschel was aware of his son’s brilliance and had visions Karl working beside him or perhaps even a judge. Karl came from a long line of Rabbis on bo

While in Cologne Marx met Moses Hess, a radical socialist. Marx attended his socialist meetings. Members of the group believed the German working class suffered under the present government, which inspired Marx to conclude that only socialism could end it. Based on this information, Marx wrote an article on the poverty of the Mosel wine-farmers. The article criticized the government and consequently, upon its publication, the Prussian authorities banned The Rhenish Gazette in January 1843.

Clearly Lenin’s brand of communism was a far cry from the egalitarian philosophy of Karl Marx. But Marx failed to recognize critical factors such as personal ambition, and the darker sides of human nature, for instance greed, envy, and hunger for power.

For fear of being arrested, Marx hastily married his girlfriend, Jenny von Westphalen, and moved to France. There he was offered the position of editor for a new political journal, Franco-German Annals. His old mentor, Bruno Bauer, the Russian anarchist, Michael Bakunin and the radical son of a wealthy German industrialist, Friedrich Engels was among the contributors to the journal.

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