Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, and author of Das Kapital, and, along with coauthor Fredrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818, in Trier, Germany, to a middle-class family of Jewish ancestry. His father, Heinrich Marx, was a lawyer and his mother, Henriette Pressburg, descended from a long line of rabbis. His family converted to Christianity when he was six years old because of intense anti-Semitic sentiments.
Marx displayed exceptional academic abilities from a young age. But it was at the University of Berlin…
