Karl Marx was born on may 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, now in West Germany. He was born into a rich family. That is kind of ironic because he fights against capitalism. He was the oldest surviving boy of nine. His father Heinrich was a successful lawyer, devoted to his work. His mother was born Henrietta Pressburg in Holland. Both of his parents were Jewish and came from a long line of rabbis. In 1819 his father gave up the jewish faith and was baptized in the Evangelical Established Church. Karl was baptized when he was six. As he was growing up he experienced alot of prejudice and discrimination because of his Jewish background. This was probably a contributing factor in why the church did not play a big role in his life and his disire for political and social change. When he was growing up he cared more for politics then for religion.

In 1847 a group of men me to discuss making a new constitution. They invited Marx to join the group. He and Engels decided to join, and after 3 and a half years the commity created a communist constitution. After it was complete he sent it to the London communist commity and they adopted it as thier manifesto at once.

Marxism became the creed of the Soviet Union, and was later adopted by Lenin to create what is now known as Leninism. Even western philosophers used marxist ideas in solving problems. The philosophical view of Marxism is that man’s defining character is his creativity. Man does not work for himslef but for himself as a species.

Karl Marx was a man that stood up for what he believed in. Even though he was born into a rich family he lived and died a pauper. His family hardley had enough food to survive and two of his children died “a scarifice to bourgeois misery.” Many times the exsisted on a diet of potatoes and bread. Only once in his life did he work for money and that was a the European coresspondant for the New York Tribune. His children learned to lie to creditors and once they escaped thier creditor

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