Born in Rhineland, at Trier, of German-Jewish parents who had been converted to Christianity, Marx obtained his doctor’s degree after studying the ideas of philosopher Georg Hegel. Turning to journalism to earn a living he went to Paris, where he became interested in socialistic ideas. He and Friedrich Engels published the famous Communist Manifesto. His next major work was Das Kapital, one of the most influential books of modern times.
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