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Karl Marx
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

Karl Marx

Germany, 1818 - 1883
He was a German-born philosopher, writer, economist and revolutionary socialist. He authored the Communist Manifesto, a pamphlet critical of capitalism that cast a huge influence over intellectual, economic and political history. As a result, Marxism became a body of economic and political thinking.
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