Who was Karl Marx and tell about his socialist life ?

As a result of Marx’s frequent tussles with landlords and lenders overs funds owed, Marx took to using pseudonyms when he rented an apartment in order to make it harder for the proper authorities to find him and kick him out.

It is reported that approximately only nine to eleven people attended Marx’s funeral in 1885. Besides four members of Marx’s family, mourners included Marx’s lifelong collaborator Friedrich Engels, several other communist associates, and a British evolutionary biologist.

In his university days, Marx dedicated time to writing fiction, plays, and poetry. Marx, in fact, published two poems during his lifetime, and over half of the poems Marx composed were adoring love poems dedicated to his wife Jenny.

Marx largely abandoned this artistic work in his early twenties for the political and economic themes that would absorb him right up until his death.

Friends of Marx would sometimes playfully refer to him as “the Moor” because of Marx’s dark beard and swarthy complexion. Marx would also sometimes sign letters to friends as “Old Nick,” which was a term often used for the devil.

Marx’s most famous work, the Communist Manifesto, was published in 1848 with Friedrich Engels credited as a co-author. The Manifesto, which was originally published as a 23-page pamphlet, describes and analyzes capitalism as a political and economic system and ultimately predicts its overthrow by an organized working class

After Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in 1864 on the promise of banishing slavery, he was sent a long letter congratulating him on his achievements. The author of that letter? None other than Karl Marx. The letter began by stating “if resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.

While in his twenties, Marx seriously considered moving to Texas. He even went so far as applying to the Minister of Trier, his birthplace, for an immigration permit that would allow him to move. Obviously, he didn’t move to the Alamo state—but imagine how different the world may have been if he did!

Marx’s son-in-law wrote a polemic against contemporary political and religious ideas of work that was playfully titled The Right to be Lazy. Cuban-born French revolutionary Paul Lafargue, who married Marx’s second daughter Laura, published the tract in 1880. The essay argues, somewhat in jest, that human laziness when combined with creativity is the key to human progress.

Marx has been about 20 times in film. Two of those times include appearances on Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In one of those episodes, Marx appears in the modern era on a trivia quiz show where he is ridiculed for not knowing the answers to a series of obscure questions about British soccer players.

Tattoos of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and other communist revolutionaries were quite common in the former Soviet Union. But it’s probably not why you think. Prisoners would get tattoos of Marx or other important founding Soviet figures tattooed over their chest or other vital organs because firing squads were prohibited from firing at images of the founding members of the Soviet Union.

Despite having a bad reputation with liberal economists, Marx was actually in favor of free trade.

His reasoning though was a little different. Namely, Marx believed that free trade was destructive of national bonds and identities and would thus create the conditions for international working class solidarity, hence leading to socialist revolution.

The German philosopher, revolutionary economist (one who studies the use of money and other material funds), and leader Karl Marx founded modern "scientific" socialism (a system of society in which no property is held as private).

An American Civil War Union General once plotted to kill Karl Marx for being too conservative. Yeah, you read that one right! August Willich was a Prussian-born revolutionary communist who was a co-leader of the anti-Marx group of the League of Communists during the 1840s.

Marx declined to duel and it never happened. Willich later emigrated to the United States and joined the Union Army where he fought in the Civil War as a General

His basic ideas—known as Marxism—form the foundation of Socialist and Communist (an economic and government system characterized by citizens holding all property and goods in common) movements throughout the world.

General Sherman Tree located in Sequoia National Park in California is, by volume, the largest-known living single stem tree in the world.

Karl Heinreich Marx was born in Trier, Rhenish Prussia (present-day Germany), on May 5, 1818, the son of Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, and Henriette Presburg Marx, a Dutchwoman. Both Heinrich and Henriette were descendants of a long line of rabbis (masters or teachers of Jewish religion).

The tree used to go by the name of the Karl Marx tree. It was named after the German Giant because of its location within an American utopian socialist community founded in the park in 1886.

Barred from the practice of law because he was Jewish, Heinrich Marx converted to Lutheranism about 1817. Karl was baptized in the same church in 1824 at the age of six. Karl attended a Lutheran elementary school but later became an atheist (one who does not believe in the existence of God) and a materialist (one who believes that physical matter is all that is real), rejecting both the Christian and Jewish religions.

Karl attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Trier for five years, graduating in 1835 at the age of seventeen. The gymnasium's program was the usual classical one—history, mathematics, literature, and languages, particularly Greek and Latin. Karl became very skillful in French and Latin, both of which he learned to read and write fluently.

The Phillips brothers, Anton and Gerard, co-founded American multinational electronics giant Phillips. Little known is that their father, Benjamin Phillips, was a first cousin of none other than Karl Marx.

In October 1835 Marx enrolled in Bonn University in Bonn, Germany, where he attended courses primarily in law, as it was his father's desire that he become a lawyer. Marx, however, was more interested in philosophy (the study of knowledge) and literature than in law. He wanted to be a poet and dramatist (one who writes plays).

Karl Marx dedicated his most significant work, Das Capital, to natural scientist and founder of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin. Marx and Engels were both early fans of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, calling him “absolutely splendid” and saying that On the Origin of Species was “the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view.”