Karl Heinrich Marx

German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anti capitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
Born in Prussia on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx began exploring sociopolitical theories at university among the Young Hegelians. He became a journalist, and his socialist writings would get him expelled from Germany and France. In 1848, he published The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels and was exiled to London, where he wrote the first volume of Das Kapital and lived the remainder of his life.