1. Karl Marx
... arrested for encouraging the people not to pay taxes. He was exonerated by common consent after defending himself in his own trial. On May 16, 1849, Marx was banished as an alien by the Prussian government. Because of the failure of the German liberal democratic movement in 1849, ... determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness." Friedrich Engels later referred to this as "false consciousness". The first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867. It was a detailed analysis of capitalism. [The book dealt with important concepts such as surp...
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