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Books by Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and political theorist. Born in Trier in the Rhineland, he studied philosophy in Bonn and Berlin before being radicalized by the censored press and the conditions of industrial labor. He collaborated with Friedrich Engels on The Communist Manifesto (1848) and spent much of his adult life in London exile, researching at the British Museum and writing Capital. Only Volume I appeared in his lifetime; Engels edited and published Volumes II and III from Marx's manuscripts after his death. Marx's work forms the intellectual foundation of socialist and communist political movements worldwide.