Marx, Karl
Marx, Karl ( 1818 – 83 ),born in Rhenish Prussia, of Jewish descent, editor of the Rheinische Zeitung at Cologne in 1842 . His extreme radical views led to the suppression of the paper, and Marx went to Paris, where he met Engels and collaborated with him in works of political philosophy. He was expelled from Paris, moved to Brussels, and at the time of the revolutionary movement of 1848 returned to Cologne, where, with Engels, he again conducted a newspaper, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. His revolutionary and communistic views caused him to be once more expelled, and he finally settled in London. He and Engels wrote about contemporary politics and society in England, finding in Carlyle 's works, particularly Latter-Day Pamphlets ( 1850 ), the only example of proper concern on the part of a British writer for the social condition of workers. They adopted Carlyle's rhetoric about the ‘cash...
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