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MARX, KARL (1818-1883)

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Date: 19960101
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The great series of changes in Europe known as the Industrial Revolution brought wealth to some people. But many factory workers were poor and miserable. Few people in the 1800s questioned these unfair conditions. But the German philosopher Karl Marx began to speak of a new system of government known as communism, under which all the people of a country would own the industries and means of production.

Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. As a young man, he was influenced by the ideas of liberty and equality in the French Revolution. He began to attack the capitalist ...

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