KARL MARX
Karl Marx was an economist, sociologist and philosopher who has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. Having been expelled from his native Germany as well as France and Belgium for his revolutionary political beliefs, Marx arrived in London at the age of 31. He was to live here the remaining three decades of his life. He wrote his most famous work, Das Kapital, in the British Library. In it he outlined his theory of class struggle as a force for social transformation, predicting that capitalism would be torn apart by its internal contradictions and replaced by a system called socialism. He died at the age of 64 and is buried in Highgate cemetery.
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David McLellan is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kent and Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London. His biography of Marx, now accepted as the standard work, has been translated into fifteen languages. He has lectured widely in Europe, North America, India, and China. |
