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 (May 5, 1818 ± March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political
economist,historian, political theorist, sociologist, and communist revolutionary, whose ideas played a
significant role in the development of modern communism andsocialism.
Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine.
Marxhadsevenchildrenbyhiswife: JennyCaroline.
Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill
health for the last 15 months of his life. It eventually brought on the bronchitis and pleurisy that killed him
[15]
in London on March 14, 1883. He died a stateless person; family and friends in London buried his body
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in Highgate Cemetery, London, on March 17, 1883. There were only eleven mourners at his funeral.
The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by
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Laurence Bradshaw; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment. In 1970 there was an
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unsuccessful attempt to destroy the monument using a homemade bomb.

Cultural historians may regard Karl Marx as the first major social theorist to form a series of concepts
[23]
within the break between modern and premodern societies.
Marx moved to London in May 1849 and remained there for the rest of his life. For the first few years he
and his family lived in extreme poverty. He briefly worked as correspondent for the r

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1851.[39] In London Marx devoted himself to two activities: revolutionary organizing, and an attempt to
understand political economyand capitalism.
In 1859, Marx published  
    
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