.Lived 1818-1883
.German historian
.Social scientist
.Revolutionary
.Wrote Communist Manifestowith Fredrich Engles in 1848
.Wrote Das Kapital in 1848
.German historian
.Social scientist
.Revolutionary
.Wrote Communist Manifestowith Fredrich Engles in 1848
.Wrote Das Kapital in 1848
by kimmy booth June 01, 2005
A German political philosopher who wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Communist manifesto), Das Kapital, and was the editor in chief of the liberal newspaper "Neue Rheinische Zeitung". Is the father of modern communism and has a tight grave in england that some idiots tried to blow up with a pipe bomb in 1970.
In works such as Das Kapital and 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, Karl Marx stated that “greed will be the death of capitalism” because the wages of an average working class man was not enough to be put back into the capitalist system. When later capitalist economists read Marx’s writings, the concept of consumerism was born. In this system, a factory worker will be paid enough to purchase a product that his factory made. This purchase allows a manager to extract surplus value from their workers by selling them a product for more than they were paid to make it. Repeat this process for millions of workers, and you have a consumer society. In this way Marx defined modern economics over 150 years ago, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
by matinabetterhat January 19, 2009
Chap who lived back in the nineteenth century. Grew a big beard, in which he invested quite a lot. Had a good head for mathematics and wrote a lot about property and political evolution. A bit boring, not always on the money, and misunderstood by airheads and meatheads, as dead white males usually are. He overestimated both human generosity and the idea of membership of the working class as a badge of pride. Someone recently posted that he taught that the lazy should be allowed leech off the hard-working. This actually is a pretty good picture of present-day America, where the lazy keep getting away with it because the hard-working keep voting for them.
by Fearman October 30, 2007
(person)
A cool guy with a wafro and a Noah beard who invented a supposedly wonderful system called communism. Unfortunately this doesnt work for a couple reasons-
-Dipshits like Stalin tried to seize absolute power within communist nations; which, of course, corrupts absolutely.
-There are too many assholes for communism to work, and large amounts of people don't like to co-operate.
A cool guy with a wafro and a Noah beard who invented a supposedly wonderful system called communism. Unfortunately this doesnt work for a couple reasons-
-Dipshits like Stalin tried to seize absolute power within communist nations; which, of course, corrupts absolutely.
-There are too many assholes for communism to work, and large amounts of people don't like to co-operate.
-"The modern eduction system is a bastardisation of Marxist theory, warped into a sickening variation of a dictatorship."
-"I FUCKIN LOVE YOUR HAIR, KARL MARX!!!!"
-"I FUCKIN LOVE YOUR HAIR, KARL MARX!!!!"
by theresnofreenamesonUD March 12, 2008
The least appreciated member of a famous 1930s Hollywood family. Unlike his brothers; Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo, Karl did not star in any black and white comedic films. Dissapointed with his own failure to achieve cinimatic immortality. Karl sought consolation through his writing.
"This manifesto is definately the least funny thing ever produced by the Marx brothers. Karl Marx is definately the least talented member of the family."
by spider jerusalem May 29, 2005
Nineteenth century economic and political philosopher and the author of the Communist Manifesto, with co-author Friedrich Engels; he was the original learjet liberal.
by SatanInASweater July 22, 2008
Important 19th century economist and philosopher who, like many other academics of his time, believed that God was a character in a fictional novel. Is remembered best for writing The Communist Manifesto along with Freidrich Engels, though Das Kapital(The Capital) gives more thorough coverage of his economic theories and philosophies. He is often ridiculed unjustly by right-leaning economists, but any economist worth his beans is familiar with the work of Karl Marx. The philosopher Jean-Paul Satre used some of Marx's work in creating the philosophy of Existentialism. The word Marxist, derived from his name, is a mild euphimism often used to replace the term dirty athiestic blood-sucking communist scumbag.
: : Hi. I'm Karl. I'm a pretty nice guy who likes daisies. I am probably gay, according to more ignorant conservatives. Evil dictators have a bad habit of erecting my statue - I have that much in common with Jesus. I'm not all that bad at math, and I made up a lala land called communism where everyone could be happy. Too bad it doesn't quite work. Socialism works though. Try it. : :
by Andrew Broz July 16, 2005