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Karl Marx (1818–1883)

Malay2 minMarxists Internet Archive · biographical collection

Karl Marx developed a critique of capitalist political economy and participated in the international workers’ movement. He co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels. This short profile links to biographies and texts without treating one thinker’s writing as an answer to every situation.

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Assessments of historical figures should distinguish biographical facts, participants’ experience and political interpretation.

Original source language: English. KMS introductions and guides are in English.

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Politics & Society / Beginner

Manifesto of the Communist Party

A programmatic text first published in February 1848. The linked edition identifies its translators and publication history.

Source: English2 min

Economy & Work / Intermediate

Value, Price and Profit

An 1865 address on wages, value and profit, published after Marx’s death. It helps distinguish labour-power from surplus value.

Source: English2 min

History & Revolution / Beginner

Who were Marx and Engels?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels developed an analysis of capitalist society and participated in the nineteenth-century workers’ movement. Their joint work, the Communist Manifesto, was…

English4 min