Karl

I was born May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. Though I studied law in Berlin and Bonn, my preoccupation with philosophy steered me away from practicing. After enraging censors in Germany, I married, and moved to Paris to studying 'political economy' and the French Revolution. After being expelled from France for my part in the publishing of Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, I moved to Brussels, where I was again expelled under panic after revolution. Just before the revolution in Belgium, I authored (with Frederiech Engels), one of my more noteworthy pieces, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, a call to arms for the working men and women of the world. I wrote, and cowrote a few more pieces, and wrote for and edited a couple of magazines/newspapers (at one point I was the European politics writer for the New York Tribune) and was expelled a couple of more times before I, at last, published my masterpiece: Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I. I continued my research for the 2nd volume of Capital, but, after the depression I battled after my oldest daughter's death, I passed away on March 14, 1883.My principle concern has always been social reform: the idea that the working men and women (the proletariat) of the world deserve to control their own destinies and they should no longer be exploited at the hands of the land owning bourgeoisie. While the Manifesto served as a battle cry, much of my life was spent carefully studying economics, and Capital is my scientific critique of economics, which explains (in great detail) why Capitalism is doomed to fail and why Socialism is the answer to the world's social and political questions.