Best biography of karl marx

This page gives an overview of biographies of Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883), the German-born philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, he studied Hegelian philosophy, and political economy, lived in many places, like Berlin, Paris, Brussels and London, and developed a fundamental, theoretical and practical critique on industrial capitalism.

Many biographies have been written about this famous revolutionary. Until 2019, there was no overview of these biographies. In 2019 Angelo Segrillo published "Two Centuries of Karl Marx Biographies: An Overview". He points out that, although there are many books written about Marx's work and his ideas, real biographies, in the sense of studies of the life of Marx, are much less common. And of course it is difficult to separate the life and the work. The so-called "intellectual biographies" (of which the 1939 book of Isaiah Berlin i

Karl Marx: Biography, The Communist Manifesto, Quotes & Facts

Karl Marx: A Biography by David McLellan is the standard university text.

Karl Marx | Books, Theory, Beliefs, Children, Communism ...

Let's move on to your second book about Marx, David McLellan's Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (1973).

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Karl Marx [a] (German: [kaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, political economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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