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Posted by Jamie on November 02, 19104 at 11:11:55:
In Reply to: doing a paper, could use a little help posted by andi on October 20, 19103 at 17:43:21:
I too am doing a paper on Karl Marx, and one obvious thing that he did was introduce Democracy to Russia.
Karl Marx
Prussia, Germany
1818-1883
Marx's father was a lawyer, a Jew. Marx attended a Gymnasium in Trier and after graduating moved on to a university in Bonn and later to the University of Berlin. While in Berlin, Marx became acquainted with and influenced by the anti-religion and anti-autocracy philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel and a radical group known as the Young Hegelians. Marx majored in history and philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1841 after submitting his thesis on the philosophy of Epicurius. Karl Heinrich Marx was the oldest surviving boy of nine children. Karl was baptized when he was six years old. Although as a youth Karl was influenced less by religion than by the critical, sometimes radical social policies of the Enlightenment, his Jewish background exposed him to prejudice and discrimination that may have led him to question the role of religion in society and contributed to his desire for social change.
Marx planted the seed of revolution into a world where he thought it was desperately needed. Although he never lived to see the fruits of his labor, the impact he made on the world is too significant to ignore.