“ The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes and even cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity-and so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.” Karl Marx said this. He was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary in the nineteenth century.
Karl was born in a middle class home in Trier, Germany on May 5, 1818. His family came from a long line of Rabbis. At seventeen years old Karl enrolled in the faculty of law at the University of Bonn. While he was the
During the last years of his life Marx’s health declined and he could no keep working with the same effort. His health never improved and he tried to get better by going to spas all around Europe and even to Algeria. His oldest daughter and wife dies and this made the last years of his life worse. Marx died on March 14, 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London.
After going to Berlin University, Marx went on to journalism. In October of 1842 he because the editor of Rheinsone Zeitung. This was a newspaper. He wrote articles on economic questions, but then the Prussian Government forced the newspaper to close. Karl then moved to France. While in France he went to Paris and become a communist. He then wrote a series of writings called Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in 1844. Th
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