Karl Marx

 

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in the Rhenish city of Trier, Germany.

 

He grew up in a bourgeois house hold, where there were a lot of tensions related to his minority status. His mother, Henrietta Marx, lever learnt to write correct German, as well as to speak fluent German without accent. He was not really close to her, but he had a close relationship with his father, Heinrich. He introduced his son to the world of human learning and letters, to the great figures of the Enlightenment and to the Greek and German classics. 

 

Later, he became a Young Hegelian rebel at Berlin University. It was  a member of a group of German intellectuals who, in the decade after the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in 1831, reacted to and wrote about his ambiguous legacy. The Young Hegelians drew on his idea that the purpose and promise of history was the total negation of everything conducive to restricting freedom and reason.

 

From 1843 to 1845, Marx went to Paris, and this trip was very decisive in his intellectual development. At this moment, Paris had become the centre of social, political, and artistic activity and the gathering place of radicals and revolutionaries from all over Europe. He had the possibility to meet some radicals, and to study novel doctrines, that were not available in Germany. Marx, the radical liberal, completed his conversion to socialism in the heady atmosphere of Paris.

 

Karl Marx implemented the notion of the social class struggle. This struggle is expressing by a serious opposition between the classes, it is caused by the contradictory interests of each of the classes; they all want to be the centre of the power. The class warfare had various issues: Power, richness distribution, property and authority. It usually confronts the workers and the bourgeoisie. Marx said that this struggle always existed, in the Middle Age, during the slave-trading period, or in capitalist society.

 

Now, we call Marxism the philosophy elaborated by Karl Marx, that represents a whole of concepts, ideas, theories and ideals.

 

He died in March 14, 1883 in London