Karl+Marx


 * __ Karl Marx __**




 * Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river Moselle in Germany on May 5, 1818 [1]
 * At the request of the Communist League, Marx and Engels coauthored their most famous work, “The Communist Manifesto,” published in 1848. [3]
 * While in Cologne he met Moses Hess, a radical who called himself a [|socialist] . Marx began attending socialist meetings organised by Hess. Based on what he heard at these meetings, Marx decided to write an article on the poverty of the Mosel wine-farmers. [4]
 * Therefore, in the summer of 1843, after marrying the daughter of Privy Councillor von Westphalen in Trier (sister of the von Westphalen who later became Prussian Minister of the Interior) Marx moved to Paris, where he devoted himself primarily to studying political economy and the history of the great French Revolution. [5]
 * In Paris he began mixing with members of the working class for the first time. Marx was shocked by their poverty but impressed by their sense of comradeship. In an article that he wrote for the //Franco-German Annals//, Marx applied Hegel's dialectic theory to what he had observed in Paris. Marx, who now described himself as a communist, argued that the working class (the proletariat), would eventually be the emancipators of society. [4]
 * When Marx returned to Brussels he concentrated on writing //[|The Communist Manifesto]//. Based on a first draft produced by [|Friedrich Engels] called the //[|Principles of Communism]//, Marx finished the 12,000 word pamphlet in six weeks. [4]
 * Marx died March 14, 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London [1]


 * __ Parallels __**




 * Karl Marx is portrayed by the Animal Farm character Old Major.
 * Both saw injustice in the treatment of the less fortunate and wished for it to change. "The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth." (Orwell, 1992, p. 5)
 * As the creator of Animalism, Marx relates strongly to Old Major's creation of Communism. "Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. All animals are equal." (Orwell, 1992, p. 8)
 * Marx and Old Major both believed the cause for the misfortune of the weak, was due to oppresion from those with power. "Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is gone for ever." (Orwell, 1992, p. 8)


 * __References__**

[] [1] [|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/#1] [2] [] [3] [] [4] [] [5]


 * __Images__**

http://emsutopia.wikispaces.com/7Jordan's+Animal+Farm+Page []