Karl Marx
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analysing societal structure and change, particularly
Marx's birthplace, now Brückenstraße 10, in Trier. The family occupied two rooms on the ground floor and three on the first floor. Purchased by the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, it now houses a museum devoted to him.
Marx before 1840
Jenny von Westphalen in the 1830s
Trierer students in front of the White Horse, among them, Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
Karl Marx
…class struggle under capitalism, and predicting the system's ultimate replacement by communism. Marx co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) with Friedrich Engels, and undertook a critique of classical political economy in his magnum opus, Das Kapital (1867–1894). His ideas and their later development, collectively…
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842