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Contemporary Civilization

"Workers of all lands, unite!” (Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848).

Selections from the Marx-Engels Reader

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Karl Marx

1818 CE – 1883 CE

Karl Marx was born 1818 in Trier, Kingdom of Prussia, to a wealthy middle-class family descended from rabbis on both sides. Marx’s father, however, was a pro-Enlightenment thinker who converted to Protestantism in order to practice law. 

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