Marx

[mahrks, mahrks]

noun

1. Karl (Heinrich) 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.

Marx

/ mɑːks /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1818–83, German founder of modern communism, in England from 1849. With Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). He developed his theories of the class struggle and the economics of capitalism in Das Kapital (1867; 1885; 1895). He was one of the founders of the International Workingmen's Association (First International) (1864)

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Marx promised that religion would vanish when material conditions improved.

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Groucho Marx quipped that he wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would accept him as a member.

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