Marx, Karl 1818-1883
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1818 · died 1883
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analyzing class struggle under capitalism and predicting the system's overthrow by the proletariat in favour of communism. Marx co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) with his lifelong friend Friedrich Engels, and undertook a critique of classical political economy in his magnum opus, Das Kapital (1867–1894). Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence and have influenced revolutions and uprisings in many countries.
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Where the papers are held
The surviving papers of Marx, Karl 1818-1883 are held at Marx Memorial Library; International Institute of Social History; Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
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