Karl Marx

Philosopher-economist whose critique of capital reoriented social science and 20th-century politics.

Specifications & Metrics

lifespan

1818-1883

nationality

German

school

Marxian

Core Principles & Analysis

• Das Kapital volume I (1867) built surplus value out of the classical labor theory of value.
• The Communist Manifesto (1848), with Engels, put class conflict at the center of modern history.
• His crisis theory and reserve-army argument still anchor heterodox inequality analysis.

Sources

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Karl Marx